Todmorden High School
Ewood Lane, Todmorden, OL14 7DG
This school is closed (it closed in March 2025).
It was replaced by Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Acting Headteacher
- Miss Gill Shirt
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Constituency
- Calder Valley
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Urban city and town
- Capacity
- 900
- Pupils on roll
- 848
- URN
- 107564
- Local authority
- Calderdale
About this school
Todmorden High School was a community secondary school in Todmorden. It taught children aged 11 to 16 and had 848 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Todmorden High School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in January 1900, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 176 | 170 | 157 |
| Attainment 8 score | 45.5 | 45.1 | 46.0 |
| Progress 8 score | 0.00 -0.21 to +0.21 | +0.08 -0.14 to +0.30 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 40% | 34.7% | 42.7% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 60% | 53.5% | 63.7% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 18% | 9.4% | 9.6% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
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 Todmorden 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 | Calderdale average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 45.5 | 39.7 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 45.1 | 39 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 46 | 37.3 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 9.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 11.3% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 9.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 887 |
| 2023/24 | 875 |
| 2024/25 | 848 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Todmorden High School compares
Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 61% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 11% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 46 | 9.1% | 30.7% | 848 | — |
| Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy | — | — | — | 885 | 0.0 miles |
| Whitworth Community High School | 50.3 | 5.9% | 24.4% | 654 | 5.3 miles |
| Wardle Academy | 44.1 | 9% | 29.9% | 1,366 | 5.5 miles |
| The Valley Leadership Academy | 32.6 | 15.4% | 46.9% | 578 | 5.6 miles |
| Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School | 73.3 | 4.6% | 7.9% | 1,087 | 5.9 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)
- 30.66%
- English as an additional language
- 6.3%
- Overall absence
- 9.11%
- Persistent absence
- 25.36%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy0.0 miles
Secondary · Todmorden
-
Whitworth Community High School5.3 miles
Secondary · Rochdale
-
Wardle Academy5.5 miles
Secondary · Rochdale
-
The Valley Leadership Academy5.6 miles
Secondary · Bacup
-
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School5.9 miles
Secondary · Rossendale
Other schools in Todmorden
- Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy Secondary
- Castle Hill Primary School Primary
- Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School Primary
- Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School Primary
- Ferney Lee Primary School Primary
- Shade Primary School Primary
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Voluntary Academy Primary
- Todmorden CofE J, I & N School Primary
- Walsden St Peter's CE (VC) Primary School Primary
- Pennine Special schools
Common questions
- What ages does Todmorden High School teach?
- Todmorden High School taught children aged 11 to 16. It was a secondary school in Todmorden.
- Has Todmorden High School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Todmorden 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 Todmorden High School?
- Todmorden High School had 848 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- How have Todmorden High School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 45.5 in 2022/23 and 46 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Todmorden High School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Todmorden 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 7 July 2025.