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Longdendale High School

🏫 Educational Institution / School

✨ AI Executive Quality Summary

Scraped details for Longdendale High SchoolClosed. Location postcode is SK14 8LW.

📈 Historical Rating Trends

Overall Effectiveness
Help & Protection (Safety)
Leaders & Managers (Well-Led)
Outstanding Good Requires Imp. Inadequate Mar 2006 Overall: Satisfactory Mar 2009 Overall: Good May 2012 Overall: Satisfactory Sep 2013 Overall: Requires Improvement Nov 2015 Overall: Good Mar 2006 Mar 2009 May 2012 Sep 2013 Nov 2015

🔑 Official Registries

Ofsted URN 106267 🔗
CQC Location ID N/A
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Last Synced Never

📋 Capacity & Registration

Number of Pupils 734
Pupils on Roll 736
Lead Inspector Joan Bonenfant
Inspection Dates 3–4 November 2015

📋 Ofsted Detailed Evaluation Insights

✔️ Key Strengths & Findings

  • Since the previous inspection there have been marked improvements in teaching, behaviour and the overall quality of education that pupils receive. This is because leadership, including governance, is outstanding.
  • The headteacher has been successful in uniting most members of the school community behind him and there is a shared aspiration for continued improvement.
  • Swift action taken by school leaders since the previous inspection has resulted in the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that of others in the school narrowing quickly.
  • Pupils make good progress in most subjects and do outstandingly well in English.
  • Pupils with special educational needs and disabled pupils receive effective support and are well taught. As a result, they make good progress.
  • School leaders are self-critical and open to new ideas. They have a very accurate view of the schoolu2019s strengths and weaknesses. Consequently, plans for further improvement are sharply focused on the correct priorities.
  • Pupils have good attitudes to learning. They feel that improvements in teaching have led to much better standards of behaviour.
  • Pupils speak proudly of the schoolu2019s core values: achievement, success, professionalism, integrity, respect and endeavour. The integration of such values into the life of the school has been a defining feature in driving improvement.
  • School leaders have successfully created a learning culture among staff and systems for sharing good practice are well developed.
  • Teachers have good subject knowledge and high expectations of what pupils can achieve.

⚠️ Areas for Improvement

  • uf06e The gap between disadvantaged pupils and others
  • uf06e Improve the overall quality of teaching by reducing variability in the following ways: u2013 ensuring that the best practice is shared even more effectively so that all teaching is consistently good u2013 always deploying teaching assistants effectively u2013 making sure all teachers follow school policies, for example in marking.
  • Improve behaviour by reducing the rates of permanent exclusion.
  • Eliminate the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that of other pupils in the

📋 Regulatory Evaluation Log & Reports

November 3, 2015
Ofsted Rated Good
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November 19, 2013
Monitoring visit
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September 18, 2013
Ofsted Rated Requires Improvement
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May 23, 2012
Ofsted Rated Satisfactory
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January 13, 2010
Curriculum and development visit
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March 18, 2009
Ofsted Rated Good
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December 10, 2007
Curriculum and development visit
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March 7, 2006
Ofsted Rated Satisfactory
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December 6, 1999
Full inspection
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🔮 Predictive Ofsted Risk Profile

B2B Placement Telemetry
0% Risk
Low Risk Stability Index

Stable operational baseline. All core indicators within healthy thresholds.

All risk factors are within normal parameters.

⚠️ Area Risk Analysis

Low Risk

ONS local area crime rates are below national average.

🌊 Flood Risk Intelligence

Very Low Risk

Environment Agency flood zone monitoring probability rating.

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🚇 Infrastructure Score

8
Transit Score
Fuzzy public bus & rail network density rating (1-10)

🌐 Wikipedia Insights

Tameside

Tameside

Borough in Greater Manchester, England

Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, named after the River Tame, which flows through it. It includes the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge. Tameside is bordered by the metropolitan boroughs of Stockport to the south, Oldham to the north and northeast, Manchester to the west, and to the east by the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire. As of 2024, the population of Tameside was 239,643, making it the 8th-most populous borough of Greater Manchester.

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📊 Local Area Stats & Health Trends (tameside)

SEND Tribunal Appeals

Appeal Rate 2.44%
Decisions Upheld 88%
Mediation Rate 27%

OHID Fingertips Public Health

Life Expectancy 79.4 years
Depression Rate 10.7%
Childhood Obesity 19.6%

🍏 Food Hygiene Rating (FSA)

5
Rating: 5 / 5
Last Inspected: 2026-05-18

👥 School Governance Board

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📞 Contact Information

Street Address Spring Street, Hollingworth, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 8LW

🏢 Parent Operator Group

Longdendale High School
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