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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Newhouse Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 974of 1,050 places
- Free school meals
- 43.2%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 182
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 15 November 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Siddal Moor Sports College (URN 105834, until 1 April 2020).
What the data says
Newhouse Academy has no sixth form. Of the 201 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 18% moved to a sixth form college, 61% to a further education college and 5% started an apprenticeship.
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 32% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 38.9 against 46.1 across England and 40.6 in Rochdale, with 30% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
As an 11–16 school, Newhouse Academy is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
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 | Newhouse Academy | Rochdale | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 201 | 2,791 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 88% | 91% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 80% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | — | 3% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 18% | 32% | 13% |
| — further education college | 61% | 48% | 37% |
| — other education | — | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 5% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 5% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Newhouse Academy | Rochdale | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 38.9 | 40.6 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 30% | 35% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 53% | 55% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 31% | 30% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.26 | 3.47 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 47% | 40% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 34.4 | 33.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 42.9 | 45.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 15% | 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 | 182 | 100% | 89% | 6% | 20% | 51% |
| Mathematics | 182 | 100% | 88% | 10% | 22% | 64% |
| English Literature | 182 | 100% | 86% | 6% | 21% | 59% |
| Combined Science | 156 | 86% | 65% | 3% | 9% | 38% |
| History | 86 | 47% | 41% | 9% | 26% | 40% |
| Geography | 78 | 43% | 41% | 8% | 25% | 38% |
| Spanish | 69 | 38% | 19% | 10% | 27% | 54% |
| Fine Art | 65 | 36% | 9% | 11% | 28% | 54% |
| Photography | 59 | 32% | 6% | 8% | 19% | 80% |
| Statistics | 46 | 25% | 5% | 9% | 20% | 74% |
| Computer Science | 41 | 23% | 13% | 15% | 30% | 41% |
| Physical Education | 29 | 16% | 11% | 7% | 24% | 41% |
| Physics | 25 | 14% | 23% | 24% | 46% | 60% |
| Religious Studies | 25 | 14% | 31% | 16% | 32% | 52% |
| Chemistry | 25 | 14% | 23% | 16% | 47% | 56% |
| Biology | 25 | 14% | 23% | 20% | 45% | 64% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 19 | 10% | 8% | 0% | 21% | 47% |
| Business Studies | 18 | 10% | 18% | 0% | 20% | 61% |
| Design and Technology | 18 | 10% | 11% | 0% | 23% | 11% |
| Polish | 5 | 3% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Italian | 3 | 2% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Russian | 3 | 2% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Portuguese | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Chinese | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Citizenship Studies | 1 | 1% | 3% | — | 19% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| German | 1 | 1% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering Studies | 32 | — | — |
| Building / Construction Operations (General / Combined) | 28 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 24 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 17 | — | — |
| Dance: General | 16 | — | — |
Where Newhouse Academy is
Other secondary schools in Rochdale are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Rochdale’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Rochdale
Dixons Middleton Academy
Academy converter · 1,319 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.3
Falinge Park High School
Academy converter · 1,344 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.5
Hollingworth Academy
Academy converter · 1,331 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.1
Holy Family Roman Catholic and Church of England College
Voluntary aided school · 768 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.4
Kingsway Park High School
Academy converter · 1,289 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.3
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.