Waterhead Academy

Ofsted

–No overall grade (2025) — Inspected 2024–2025 — no overall grade under the interim framework

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 14 January 2025, published 12 February 2025. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Usually has places available — 0.73 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ▲Oasis Academy Leesbrook 1.9 km · Good (2023) · previous system
• ●The Blue Coat CofE School 2.5 km · Outstanding (2022) · previous system
• –E-ACT Royton and Crompton Academy 2.9 km · No overall grade (2025)
• –The Brian Clarke Church of England Academy 3.5 km · No overall grade (2025)
• –E-ACT the Oldham Academy North 3.8 km · Improved significantly (2025)
• !The Hathershaw College 4.2 km · Most areas: Needs attention (2026)

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.