Sale High School
Norris Road, Sale, M33 3JR
This school is closed (it closed in September 2025).
It was replaced by Sale High School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Headteacher
- Mr Adam Rogers
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Constituency
- Wythenshawe and Sale East
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,080
- Pupils on roll
- 1,074
- URN
- 106375
- Local authority
- Trafford
About this school
Sale High School was a foundation secondary school in Sale. It taught children aged 11 to 16 and had 1,074 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Sale High School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 198 | 183 | 203 |
| Attainment 8 score | 50.3 | 48.7 | 49.0 |
| Progress 8 score | 0.00 -0.21 to +0.21 | -0.14 -0.36 to +0.08 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 51% | 50.8% | 46.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 70% | 68.9% | 67.5% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 46% | 50.3% | 50.2% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Sale High School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Trafford average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 50.3 | 50.2 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 48.7 | 51.4 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 49 | 51.2 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.4% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 8% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.5% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 1,017 |
| 2023/24 | 1,049 |
| 2024/25 | 1,074 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Sale High School compares
Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 72% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 30% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 49 | 6.5% | 24% | 1,074 | — |
| Sale High School | — | — | — | 1,103 | 0.0 miles |
| Sale Grammar School | 76.1 | 3.5% | 3% | 1,352 | 0.5 miles |
| Dixons Brooklands Academy | 36.1 | 16.6% | 56.4% | 913 | 0.9 miles |
| Ashton-on-Mersey School | 52.1 | 5.7% | 16.3% | 1,609 | 1.5 miles |
| Wellington School | 57.3 | 6.6% | 11.3% | 1,536 | 1.9 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 24.02%
- English as an additional language
- 18.4%
- Overall absence
- 6.53%
- Persistent absence
- 17.11%
Location
Nearby schools
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Sale High School0.0 miles
Secondary · Sale
-
Sale Grammar School0.5 miles
Secondary · Sale
-
Dixons Brooklands Academy0.9 miles
Secondary · Manchester
-
Ashton-on-Mersey School1.5 miles
Secondary · Sale
-
Wellington School1.9 miles
Secondary · Altrincham
Other schools in Sale
- Ashton-on-Mersey School Secondary
- Sale Grammar School Secondary
- Sale High School Secondary
- All Saints' Catholic Primary School Primary
- Brooklands Primary School Primary
- Firs Primary School Primary
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School Primary
- Lime Tree Primary Academy Primary
- Moorlands Junior School Primary
- Park Road Sale Primary School Primary
- Springfield Primary School Primary
- St Anne's CofE Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Sale High School teach?
- Sale High School taught children aged 11 to 16. It was a secondary school in Sale.
- Has Sale High School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Sale High School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Sale High School?
- Sale High School had 1,074 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- How have Sale High School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 50.3 in 2022/23 and 49 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Sale High School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Sale High School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 September 2025.