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State secondary · 11 to 16 · Mixed · 1,326 pupils

Dixons Ashton Academy

Broadoak Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 8RF · Tameside
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Ofsted: Requires improvement · March 2025No 2026 resultsFewer first choices than places (2026)
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Summary

The key facts, in one place
Inspection
Requires improvement, March 2025
Results
-0.56 progress 8; 38.1 attainment 8
Size
1,326 pupils; 258 places a year; classes of 25
Run by
Dixons Academies Trust
Type
Academy sponsor led
Ages
11 to 16 · Mixed
Strengths, and things to check
  • Suspensions per 100 pupils: 16.5, against 35.4 in Tameside.
  • Progress 8: -0.56, against -0.18 in Tameside.
  • Attainment 8: 38.1, against 44.7 in Tameside.
  • English and maths, grade 5+: 30%, against 44% in Tameside.
Could your child get in?In 2026 offers reached 1.94 miles. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.Check a postcode ↓ Schools for usRank every school near you by the measures that matter to your family, each reason shown.Rank schools →

At a glance

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SourceWhere these figures come from

How it is worked outTameside and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state secondary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.

Against Tameside and England
This schoolTamesideEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Academic
Progress 8How far pupils progressed between the end of primary school and GCSEs, against pupils across England who started at the same level. 0 is average; +0.5 means half a grade better in each subject.
-0.56
Worse than Tameside
Attainment 8The average GCSE score across eight subjects, including English and maths counted twice. A grade 5 in all eight would score 50.
38.1
Worse than Tameside
English and maths, grade 5+The share of pupils with grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE (a strong pass).
30%
Worse than Tameside
Attendance and behaviour
Sessions missedHalf-day sessions missed, authorised or not, as a share of all sessions in the school year (DfE pupil absence). Lower is better.
10.9%
Worse than Tameside
Persistently absentPupils who missed one session in ten or more. Lower is better.
26.8%
Worse than Tameside
Suspensions per 100 pupilsSuspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Lower is better; one or two incidents move a small school a lot.
16.5
Better than Tameside
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
24.9
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
52%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
16.3
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Year 7 place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
0.8
Less sought after than Tameside
COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · YEAR 7 2027
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SourceTameside Metropolitan Borough Council offer-day figures, 2022 to 2026.

How it is worked outThe bars show how far the last place offered reached each year. A full bar means everyone who applied was offered a place; a dash means we hold no distance for that year. Your postcode is set against each year's last distance.

Things to know
  • A record of past years, not a promise: the distance changes every year with who applies.

In 2026 offers reached 1.94 miles. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home.

Free, no account needed. Your postcode is used for this check and not kept.

Offers

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Year 7. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Offer day, year by year

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SourceCouncil offer-day figures: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, 2022 to 2026.

Things to know
  • Distances are straight lines from the school.
EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Year 72026270392270——
Year 72025270—270——
Year 72024270—270—1.94
Year 72023270—270——
Year 72022270—270——

A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Quality

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SourceOfsted · inspected 11 March 2025
DfE school performance tables · 2023/2024
DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025

  • Requires improvement
  • Progress 8: -0.56 (England +0.01) (county -0.18)
  • Attainment 8: 38.1 (England 47.4) (county 44.7)
  • English and maths grade 5 or above: 30% (England 48%) (county 44%)

Results

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SourceDfE school performance tables, 2023/2024, 2024/2025.

MeasureThis schoolEnglandCouncilYear
Progress 8-0.56+0.01-0.182023/2024
Attainment 838.147.444.72024/2025
English and maths grade 5 or above30%48%44%2024/2025

Where leavers go

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SourceDfE, destination measures.

Things to know
  • A figure DfE hides for a small group is left out, not shown as nought. The newest year may be provisional.
StageLeavers inPupilsIn a sustained placeOf which
After GCSEs2023/2425487%In education 81%; Apprenticeship 3.1%; Employment 2.4%
After GCSEs2022/2326485%In education 80%; Apprenticeship 1.9%; Employment 3.4%
After GCSEs2021/2227087%In education 85%; Apprenticeship 1.9%; Employment 0.7%

Daily life and who goes there

Daily life

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SourceDfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level · 2024/25
DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level · 2024/25
DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
DfE, school workforce · November 2025
DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

  • Absence: 11% of sessions missed; 27% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 9.7% and 29%
  • Suspensions: 16 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 26); 4 permanent exclusions
  • Classes average 24.9 pupils; 7.0% of classes have more than 30
  • 16.3 pupils for each teacher
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 76 m
  • 10 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 2 serious)
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 12.5 µg/m³, PM2.5 7.6 (1 km square, background level)

Absence

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SourceDfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25.

Things to know
  • Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (40% or more), the median of 758 schools.
YearSessions missedAuthorisedUnauthorisedPupils missing 1 in 10Pupils missing 1 in 2
2024/2511%5.8%5.1%27%5.9%
2023/249.1%4.8%4.2%23%4.0%
2022/239.9%4.5%5.4%25%5.3%
Schools with a similar intake9.7%29%

Suspensions and exclusions

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SourceDfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/2516.57.5%2144
2023/2417.67.6%2277
2022/2337.112%4805
Schools with a similar intake25.9

Class sizes and staff

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SourceDfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size24.92025/26
Classes over 30 pupils7.0%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher16.3November 2025

Stops nearby

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SourceDfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current.

Things to know
  • A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.
KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus76

Road collisions within 500 m

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SourceDfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025.

Things to know
  • 2 serious and 0 fatal in all; 0 involved a pedestrian, 4 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.
YearCollisions
20252
20243
20231
20222
20212

Air quality

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SourceDEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Things to know
  • A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.
PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO212.52024
PM1011.22024
PM257.62024

Who goes there

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SourceDfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals52%2025/26
First language other than English24%2025/26
SEN support23%2025/26
Education, health and care plan5.0%2025/26
Girls57%2025/26

Ofsted

Ofsted, March 2025The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
Quality of educationRequires improvement
Behaviour and attitudesGood
Leadership and managementGood

Inspections

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SourceOfsted, 2025.

DateKindOutcome
11 March 2025Graded inspectionQuality of education: Requires improvement

Admissions

Getting in

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SourceDfE, school applications and offers · Year 7 2026

  • 196 families put it first for 258 places; 194 of them got in
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Applications and offers, DfE

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SourceDfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2014 to 2026.

Things to know
  • Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.
EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Year 72026258196376194
Year 72025254174376174
Year 72024264206371201
Year 72023264188350188
Year 72022265198343197
Year 72021266163315163
Year 72020212128279128
Year 72019259140290139
Year 72018237145301145
Year 72017269207395207

Who runs it

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SourceDfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined March 2026
DfE, open academies list
DfE, Get Information about Schools: links

  • Dixons Academies Trust, with 21 schools
  • Opened as an academy (sponsored) on 1 September 2008
  • Replaced Hartshead Sports College (URN 106264)
  • Replaced Stamford High School (URN 106260)
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Fees and clubs

State schools charge no tuition fees. Breakfast clubs, after-school clubs and holiday clubs are set by each school: ask the school what it runs and what it costs.

Childcare costsWhat wraparound care and early years places cost, and what funding covers.See costs →

Nearby

Schools nearby

St Damian's RC Science College0.4 miWest Hill School1.5 miDixons Pennine Academy2.2 miLaurus Ryecroft2.3 miCompare side by side →

Nurseries nearby

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SourceOfsted early years register.

Little Panda's Pre-School0.4 miles
Little Giggles Private Day Nursery And Preschool - Ashton-Under-Lyne0.7 miles
Charlestown Private Day Nursery Ltd0.9 miles
Happy Hedgehogs Pre-School0.9 miles
Homes in reach of this schoolLook up any home near here: its sales, an open-data valuation, and which schools it keeps in reach.Search homes →

Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE school performance tables
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, destination measures
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026 (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Ashton-under-Lyne and the Tameside league table.

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