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Best secondary schools in Stockport

13 of 17 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Stockport schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 12 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Cheadle Hulme High School Cheadle 0.87 Not judged oversubscribed 1.58 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 Laurus Cheadle Hulme Cheadle 0.51 Outstanding oversubscribed 1.62 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
3 Priestnall School Stockport 0.4 Requires improvement oversubscribed 1.23 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 Stockport School Stockport 0.25 Good oversubscribed 1.22 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
5 Stockport Academy Stockport 0.24 Not judged improving about even 0.95 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
6 St James' Catholic High School Cheadle 0.23 Good about even 1.06 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
7 Hazel Grove High School Stockport hidden gem 0.19 Good about even 0.94 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
8 Bramhall High School Stockport hidden gem -0.08 Good undersubscribed 0.61 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
9 St Anne's RC Voluntary Academy Stockport hidden gem -0.2 Good undersubscribed 0.73 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
10 The Kingsway School Cheadle -0.26 Requires improvement undersubscribed 0.45 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
11 Reddish Vale High School Stockport -0.29 Inadequate declining undersubscribed 0.6 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
12 Harrytown Catholic High School Stockport -0.32 Not judged about even 0.98 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
13 Werneth School Stockport -0.45 Inadequate undersubscribed 0.59 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped

Also in Stockport

4 further secondary schools with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of Stockport, not a fairer one.

Applying in Stockport

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