State-fundedAcademy converter · Trafford · M33 3JR
Secondary (no sixth form) · ages 11–16
Sale High School is a state-funded school in Trafford, teaching pupils aged 11 to 16.
No Progress 8 or Attainment 8 figures are published for this school. That usually means it is newly opened, has a cohort too small for figures to be published without identifying pupils, or is a special school for which the measures are not calculated.
227 families named this school first for 212 places for 2026 entry — 1.07 first preferences per place.
| 2026 entry | 2025 entry | 2024 entry | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per place | 1.07× | — | — |
This is how sought-after a school is, not how good it is — demand tracks house prices and older siblings as much as anything a school does. It is also not your chance of getting in: a school with two applicants per place can still admit everyone living near it, while a less popular school a mile further away turns you down. Distance is usually what decides it, and that depends on your address.
Not published — this school has no attendance figures in the Department for Education data.
Standards maintained
The outcome of an ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school's previous grade still holds rather than issuing a new one.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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