Alder Community High School
Community school · 912 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.6
Academy special sponsor led
Samuel Laycock School
- Pupils on roll
- 252of 180 places
- Free school meals
- 56.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 41
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 8 October 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Samuel Laycock School (URN 106280, until 1 April 2022).
What the data says
Samuel Laycock School has no sixth form. Of the 37 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 65% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 0.8 against 46.1 across England and 43.6 in Tameside, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
As an 11–16 school, Samuel Laycock School 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 Tameside and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Samuel Laycock School | Tameside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 37 | 2,864 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 89% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 89% | 83% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 3% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 36% | 13% |
| — further education college | 65% | 43% | 37% |
| — other education | 24% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 8% | 8% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Samuel Laycock School | Tameside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 0.8 | 43.6 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 35% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.07 | 3.81 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 44% | 35% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 0.9 | 35.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 0.7 | 47.8 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 15% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 11 | 27% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 0% |
Other secondary schools in Tameside
All Saints Catholic College
Academy converter · 810 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.5
Audenshaw School
Academy converter · 1,077 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.5
Denton Community Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,107 pupils
73% stayed in education
Dixons Ashton Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,326 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.1
Dixons Pennine Academy
Academy converter · 592 pupils
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.8
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.