Overall Oxbridge
#1,701
1 ranked schools · -787 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
12
Offers
1
Offer rate8.3%
-14.1 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
The largest town in Greater Manchester's Pennine fringe, Rochdale grew from a Domesday-era settlement into a royal charter town and, by the 19th century, a driving force in textile manufacturing and cooperative trade. The River Roch cuts the valley floor, giving the town both its name and its distinctive shape.
Rochdale station serves the Calder Valley line. Trains reach Manchester Victoria in around thirty minutes, supplemented by the Metrolink tram network into the city. Norden, curving into the hills to the north, has become one of Rochdale's most school-competitive corners, drawing families weighing primary places across the borough. Milnrow to the south-east is similarly sought-after for catchments, with Smallbridge and Castleton occupying the valley between them. Around 111,000 people live in the town proper, part of a wider Metropolitan Borough of more than 220,000.
Area Performance
Across 51 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.13/10, -0.23 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Rochdale schools
Rochdale vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Rochdale schools
top 56% of 14,978
top 56% of 14,978
top 71% of 3,862
top 71% of 3,862
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · -787 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
12
Offers
1
Oxford
1 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
7
Offers
0
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · -702 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
5
Offers
1
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