Madeley High School
near Madeley, CW3 9JJ · Staffordshire local authority
Madeley’s School Grade A better than 86% of towns in England
What stands out about Madeley High School
- Its own letter, B+: GCSE results better than 66% of England’s secondary schools
- Over capacity: 779 pupils for 675 places
- 16% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025 (shown, not graded)
- Outside any built-up area: listed with Madeley, the nearest town
- 83% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (150 of 181)
- Progress 8 of +0.30 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did better at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (CW3 9) sold for a median £255,000; Madeley’s is £183,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 130 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Madeley High beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 48.6
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 63% of schools · Staffordshire avg 43.8
Grade 5+ in English and maths 52%
A strong pass · higher than 67% of schools · Staffordshire avg 39%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
+0.30: above 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 18 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 Madeley High School?
83% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (13), 2022 (19), 2023 (38), 2024 (30), 2025 (22), 2026 (31). 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 Shaw Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Staffordshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
83% got their first choice
Madeley and Staffordshire, side by side
2025/26All 55 graded secondaries in Staffordshire. 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. Madeley’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Friary School | A | 19% | 58.5 |
| Painsley Catholic College | A− | 14% | 56.3 |
| Blessed William Howard Catholic School | A− | 23% | 55.1 |
| King Edward VI School | A− | 13% | 53.9 |
| John Taylor High School | A− | 10% | 53.6 |
| Endon High School | A− | 13% | 53 |
| Kinver High School and Sixth Form | A− | 16% | 50.6 |
| Madeley High School | B+ | 16% | 48.6 |
| Walton High School | B | 8% | 48.3 |
| Wolgarston High School | B | 17% | 48.2 |
| Abbot Beyne School | C+ | 35% | 47.4 |
| Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary Academy | B | 24% | 47 |
| Kingsmead School | C+ | 19% | 46.9 |
| Clayton Hall Academy | B− | 18% | 46.8 |
| The de Ferrers Academy | B | 29% | 46.7 |
| Landau Forte Academy, QEMS | C+ | 27% | 46.3 |
| Biddulph High School | B− | 23% | 46 |
| Lift Rawlett | B | 24% | 45.7 |
| Alleyne's Academy | C+ | 21% | 45.6 |
| Codsall Community High School | B− | 21% | 45.5 |
| Chase Terrace Academy | C+ | 24% | 45.3 |
| Erasmus Darwin Academy | C | 19% | 44.9 |
| Sir Graham Balfour High School | C+ | 22% | 44.7 |
| John Taylor Free School | C+ | 24% | 44.1 |
| The Hart School | C | 29% | 43.9 |
| Paulet High School | C | 29% | 43.7 |
| Norton Canes High School | C | 40% | 43.5 |
| Cannock Chase High School | C+ | 35% | 43.5 |
| Moorside High School | C+ | 22% | 43.5 |
| Wombourne High School | C+ | 18% | 43.1 |
| Blythe Bridge High School | C | 16% | 42.9 |
| Chesterton Community Sports College | C− | 37% | 42.8 |
| The Orme Academy | C− | 23% | 42.7 |
| The Wilnecote School | C+ | 22% | 42.3 |
| The Weston Road Academy | C | 21% | 42.1 |
| St John Fisher Catholic College | C | 23% | 41.7 |
| Cheslyn Hay Academy | C | 20% | 41.5 |
| Great Wyrley Academy | C | 34% | 41.3 |
| The Cheadle Academy | C− | 29% | 41.2 |
| Thomas Alleyne's High School | C | 16% | 41.2 |
| Westwood College | C− | 16% | 40.5 |
| Landau Forte Academy, Amington | D | 38% | 39.9 |
| King Edward VI High School | D | 34% | 39.9 |
| Nether Stowe School | C− | 36% | 39.6 |
| Paget High School | D | 33% | 38.4 |
| Cardinal Griffin Catholic College | D | 30% | 38.3 |
| Sir Thomas Boughey Academy | D | 27% | 37.8 |
| Kidsgrove Secondary School | D | 23% | 37.1 |
| The King's CofE Academy | D | 37% | 36.9 |
| The Rural Enterprise Academy | D | 29% | 36.3 |
| Leek High School | D− | 31% | 36.1 |
| Stafford Manor High School | D− | 44% | 35.3 |
| Lift Tamworth | D | 44% | 35.3 |
| Staffordshire University Academy | D− | 44% | 33.3 |
| Newcastle Academy | D− | 40% | 31.9 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025769 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
Madeley High 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.
Ungraded inspection: Improved significantly, February 2025.
Living near Madeley High School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CW3 9, the school’s postcode sector
Madeley property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in CW3 9 sell for well over Madeley’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
2 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗near Madeley, CW3 9JJ
Madeley High School: common questions
Is Madeley High School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its GCSE results are better than 66% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B+), with an Attainment 8 of 48.6 and 52% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025.
How hard is it to get into Madeley High School?
For September 2026, 181 families put Madeley High School first and 150 of them were offered a place; 159 places were offered in all.
What is Madeley High School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (February 2025).
How much do houses cost near Madeley High School?
Homes in its postcode sector, CW3 9, sold for a median £255,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (250 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; Madeley’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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