United Kingdom / Regions / Rochdale
Rochdale
North West, England · population ~224k · 90 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 78 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Rochdale
90 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 (78 of 90 here), 85.6% 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.
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 90 schools.
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Wardle Academy | Secondary | 1,364 | Good· | 20/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Falinge Park High School | Secondary | 1,359 | Good· | 03/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hollingworth Academy | Secondary | 1,339 | Good | 06/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Middleton Technology School | Secondary | 1,333 | Good· | 26/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kingsway Park High School | Secondary | 1,320 | Not graded | 26/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Matthew Moss High School | Secondary | 1,221 | Good· | 25/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School | Secondary | 1,199 | Good· | 25/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Oulder Hill Leadership Academy | Secondary | 1,170 | Not graded | 07/01/2025 | Ofsted |
St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 1,057 | Requires Improvement | 29/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Newhouse Academy | Secondary | 980 | Requires Improvement | 15/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Bowlee Park Community Primary School | Primary | 907 | Outstanding | 15/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Anne's Church of England Academy | Secondary | 786 | Good | 10/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Holy Family Roman Catholic and Church of England College | Secondary | 763 | Good· | 26/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Heybrook Primary School | Primary | 703 | Good· | 18/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Edgar Wood Academy | Secondary | 637 | Requires Improvement | 21/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandbrook Community Primary School | Primary | 598 | Requires Improvement | 18/02/2020 | OfstedWebsite |
Woodland Community Primary School | Primary | 567 | Not graded | 12/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Lowerplace Primary School | Primary | 560 | Good· | 04/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Alkrington Primary School | Primary | 516 | Good· | 29/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Boarshaw Community Primary School | Primary | 468 | Good· | 13/10/2022 | 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.