Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,186 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.9
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Hollingworth Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 1,331of 1,350 places
- Free school meals
- 30.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 266
- Ofsted
- Good, 6 December 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Hollingworth Business and Enterprise College (URN 105853, until 1 September 2013).
What the data says
Hollingworth Academy has no sixth form. Of the 269 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 40% moved to a sixth form college, 42% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 40% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 51.1 against 46.1 across England and 40.6 in Rochdale, with 60% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Languages are a small part of the curriculum here: entries in French and Spanish add up to 19% of the year group, and 22% of pupils entered the full EBacc set of subjects (England 41%).
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Rochdale and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Hollingworth Academy | Rochdale | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 269 | 2,791 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 91% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 83% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 1% | 3% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 40% | 32% | 13% |
| — further education college | 42% | 48% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Hollingworth Academy | Rochdale | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 51.1 | 40.6 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 60% | 35% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 80% | 55% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 22% | 30% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.48 | 3.47 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 29% | 40% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 42.6 | 33.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 54.5 | 45.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 4% | 26% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 265 | 100% | 89% | 27% | 20% | 82% |
| Mathematics | 265 | 100% | 88% | 29% | 22% | 84% |
| English Literature | 261 | 98% | 86% | 24% | 21% | 83% |
| Combined Science | 200 | 75% | 65% | 16% | 9% | 66% |
| Geography | 182 | 68% | 41% | 22% | 25% | 64% |
| History | 86 | 32% | 41% | 24% | 26% | 56% |
| Biology | 62 | 23% | 23% | 37% | 45% | 98% |
| Chemistry | 62 | 23% | 23% | 65% | 47% | 98% |
| Physics | 62 | 23% | 23% | 63% | 46% | 98% |
| Business Studies | 53 | 20% | 18% | 21% | 20% | 57% |
| Religious Studies | 53 | 20% | 31% | 43% | 32% | 91% |
| French | 48 | 18% | 18% | 46% | 29% | 98% |
| Design and Technology | 37 | 14% | 11% | 16% | 23% | 65% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 34 | 13% | 8% | 24% | 21% | 68% |
| Computer Science | 27 | 10% | 13% | 30% | 30% | 74% |
| Art and Design | 23 | 9% | 7% | 30% | 24% | 91% |
| Photography | 21 | 8% | 6% | 19% | 19% | 95% |
| Physical Education | 15 | 6% | 11% | 13% | 24% | 60% |
| Polish | 8 | 3% | 1% | 88% | 84% | 100% |
| Spanish | 3 | 1% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
| Urdu | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering Studies | 45 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 27 | — | — |
| Building / Construction Operations (General / Combined) | 23 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 18 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 17 | — | — |
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.