United Kingdom / Regions / Manchester
Manchester
North West, England · population ~556k · 188 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 150 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Manchester
188 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (150 of 188 here), 90.3% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 5 schools (2.7% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 188 schools.
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Parrs Wood High School | Secondary | 1,867 | Not graded | 05/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Abraham Moss Community School | Secondary | 1,823 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
Wright Robinson College | Secondary | 1,810 | Outstanding· | 07/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Whalley Range 11-18 High School | Secondary | 1,647 | Good· | 28/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Co-op Academy Manchester | Secondary | 1,610 | Good· | 14/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
William Hulme's Grammar School | Secondary | 1,590 | Not graded | 18/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Chorlton High School | Secondary | 1,529 | Good· | 18/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Trinity CofE High School | Secondary | 1,503 | Good | 08/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Dean Trust Ardwick | Secondary | 1,339 | Good· | 12/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Matthew's RC High School | Secondary | 1,324 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Manchester Communication Academy | Secondary | 1,299 | Good | 21/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Co-op Academy North Manchester | Secondary | 1,258 | Good· | 17/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Manchester Enterprise Academy | Secondary | 1,186 | Good· | 22/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Didsbury High School | Secondary | 1,181 | Outstanding | 30/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
CHS South | Secondary | 1,128 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Manchester Academy | Secondary | 1,117 | Good | 27/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Beaver Road Primary School | Primary | 1,059 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Manchester Enterprise Academy Central | Secondary | 1,056 | Good | 09/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Our Lady's RC High School | Secondary | 1,050 | Good· | 11/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Levenshulme High School | Secondary | 1,048 | Outstanding· | 09/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.