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Oakwood Academy

Special schoolAges 9–19AcademySixth form

Eccles, M30 9DY · Salford local authority

Eccles’s School Grade B− better than 49% of towns in England

How full
351 pupils
124% of its 284 places
Free school meals
58%
58 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Oakwood Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 351 pupils for 284 places
  • 58% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, January 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (M30 9) sold for a median £301,750; Eccles’s is £232,250

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 52 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Oakwood beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 2.6

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Salford avg 46.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Oakwood 2.6

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Salford avg 46%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Oakwood 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
1.9
2024/25
3
2025/26
2.6

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.87: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 29 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
3.6England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
1.3England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Salford 65% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

333 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
1.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
98.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
11.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
54.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 29%Boys 71%
Its letter

No letter for Oakwood Academy

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, January 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Oakwood Academy

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in M30 9, the school’s postcode sector

Eccles property prices →
£301,750
median sale, 388 sales in 36 months · Eccles £232,250

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025M30 9Eccles
M30 9Eccles

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£595K
Semi-detached
£430K
Terraced
£291K
Flat
£170K
M30 9Eccles

Homes in M30 9 sell for well over Eccles’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

31 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+C−C+CDCC−CCCD−A−B−A+C+C+B+CA−B+B−A+CBCCBDB+C+Oakwood Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Eccles, M30 9DY

Oakwood Academy: common questions

What is Oakwood Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (January 2024).

How much do houses cost near Oakwood Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, M30 9, sold for a median £301,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (388 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Eccles’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.