Overall Oxbridge
#471
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Offer rate50.0%
+27.6 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Once one of Lancashire's busiest cotton towns, Ashton-under-Lyne earned its market charter in 1414 and was transformed by the cotton trade in 1769, which reordered its streets into a grid and drew mills to the banks of the River Tame in the Pennine foothills. Today the town sits within Tameside, Greater Manchester, with around 48,000 residents.
Northern Rail links reach Manchester Piccadilly in around fifteen minutes. Mossley and Lees draw families competing for primary places at the eastern edge of the borough, while Hurst and Broadoak extend the residential catchment toward the Pennine fringe, with Holden Fold on the quieter northern edge.
Area Performance
Across 23 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.20/10, -0.16 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Ashton-under-Lyne schools
Ashton-under-Lyne vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Ashton-under-Lyne schools
top 55% of 14,978
top 55% of 14,978
top 67% of 3,862
top 67% of 3,862
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · +409 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
2
Offers
1
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