Saddleworth School
Uppermill, OL3 5NU · Oldham local authority
Uppermill’s School Grade B better than 62% of towns in England
What stands out about Saddleworth School
- Its own letter, B+: GCSE results better than 69% of England’s secondary schools
- Ofsted: Requires improvement, January 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 96% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (258 of 268)
- Homes in its postcode sector (OL3 5) sold for a median £345,000; Uppermill’s is £345,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 267 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Saddleworth beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 49.2
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 66% of schools · Oldham avg 44.4
Grade 5+ in English and maths 55%
A strong pass · higher than 72% of schools · Oldham avg 40%
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 68 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 Saddleworth School?
96% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (37), 2020 (37), 2021 (14), 2022 (31), 2024 (7), 2025 (19), 2026 (10). 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. Cranmer Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Oldham council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
96% got their first choice
Uppermill and Oldham, side by side
2025/26All 13 graded secondaries in Oldham. 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. Uppermill’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blue Coat CofE School | A | 17% | 57 |
| The Crompton House Church of England Academy | B+ | 18% | 50.5 |
| Saddleworth School | B+ | 24% | 49.2 |
| Saint John Henry Newman Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy | C+ | 37% | 46.8 |
| Co-op Academy Failsworth | B− | 44% | 45.7 |
| E-ACT the Oldham Academy North | B− | 50% | 45.5 |
| Oasis Academy Oldham | C | 56% | 44.5 |
| North Chadderton School | C+ | 27% | 44.4 |
| The Radclyffe School | C | 42% | 42.2 |
| Oasis Academy Leesbrook | C− | 52% | 40.4 |
| E-ACT Royton and Crompton Academy | C− | 47% | 38.4 |
| Co-op Academy Strinesdale | D | 54% | 37.9 |
| The Hathershaw College | D− | 54% | 35.2 |
Saddleworth School’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: Requires improvement, January 2024.
Living near Saddleworth School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in OL3 5, the school’s postcode sector
Uppermill property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in OL3 5 sell for about the same as Uppermill’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
7 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Uppermill, OL3 5NU
Saddleworth School: common questions
Is Saddleworth School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its GCSE results are better than 69% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B+), with an Attainment 8 of 49.2 and 55% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Requires improvement, January 2024.
How hard is it to get into Saddleworth School?
For September 2026, 268 families put Saddleworth School first and 258 of them were offered a place; 293 places were offered in all.
What is Saddleworth School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Requires improvement (January 2024).
How much do houses cost near Saddleworth School?
Homes in its postcode sector, OL3 5, sold for a median £345,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (304 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; Uppermill’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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