Co-op Academy Swinton
Swinton, M27 6JU · Salford local authority
Swinton’s School Grade B− better than 50% of towns in England
What stands out about Co-op Academy Swinton
- Its own letter, B−: GCSE results better than 49% of England’s secondary schools
- Ofsted: Good, June 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (122 of 122)
- Progress 8 of -0.48 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did less well at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (M27 6) sold for a median £210,000; Swinton’s is £250,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 176 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Co-op Academy Swinton beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 47.5
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 57% of schools · Salford avg 46.4
Grade 5+ in English and maths 42%
A strong pass · higher than 42% of schools · Salford avg 46%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.48: 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 62 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
How hard is it to get a place at Co-op Academy Swinton?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (1), 2021 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The Co-Operative Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Salford council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Swinton and Salford, side by side
2025/26All 14 graded secondaries in Salford. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Swinton’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Patrick's RC High School | A− | 21% | 53.3 |
| All Hallows RC High School | B+ | 39% | 51.7 |
| The Albion Academy | A− | 59% | 51.1 |
| Beis Yaakov High School | B+ | 4% | 50.4 |
| Ellesmere Park High School | B | 33% | 48.9 |
| Co-op Academy Swinton | B− | 38% | 47.5 |
| Co-op Academy Walkden | B− | 30% | 47.2 |
| Buile Hill Academy | B | 45% | 46.1 |
| Irlam and Cadishead Academy | B− | 39% | 45.3 |
| St Ambrose Barlow Roman Catholic High School | C+ | 30% | 44.8 |
| Salford City Academy | B− | 46% | 44.6 |
| The Lowry Academy | C+ | 59% | 42.1 |
| Moorside High School | C | 29% | 40.1 |
| Oasis Academy MediaCityUK | D | 56% | 35.8 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025991 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.
Girls and boys
Co-op Academy Swinton’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, June 2024.
Living near Co-op Academy Swinton
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in M27 6, the school’s postcode sector
Swinton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in M27 6 sell for well under Swinton’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
17 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Swinton, M27 6JU
Co-op Academy Swinton: common questions
Is Co-op Academy Swinton a good school?
By its published results, about average: its GCSE results are better than 49% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B−), with an Attainment 8 of 47.5 and 42% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2024.
How hard is it to get into Co-op Academy Swinton?
For September 2026, 122 families put Co-op Academy Swinton first and all of them were offered a place; 166 places were offered in all.
What is Co-op Academy Swinton’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2024).
How much do houses cost near Co-op Academy Swinton?
Homes in its postcode sector, M27 6, sold for a median £210,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (168 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; Swinton’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.
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