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Waterhead Academy

URN: 144508

Address: Huddersfield Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL4 3NY
SOUTH PENNINE ACADEMIES

Rating and reports

Inspection outcome

Ofsted made the following key judgements following school inspection on 14 January 2025:

Quality of education:

Requires Improvement

Behaviour and attitudes:

Requires Improvement

Personal development:

Good

Leadership and management:

Requires Improvement

From September 2024, Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgement in inspections of state-funded schools.

All reports

  1. School inspection School inspection, PDF - 13 February 2025
  2. Monitoring visit Monitoring visit, PDF - 13 November 2024
  3. Monitoring visit Monitoring visit, PDF - 05 December 2023
  4. School inspection: InadequateSchool inspection, PDF - 19 January 2023
  5. Opened

Next inspection

From September 2024, graded inspections will not include an overall effectiveness grade. Schools inspected from then will not have the same way of working out when to expect their next inspection. We will set out the expected dates for when we will next inspect them from September 2025. These schools should not expect to receive an ungraded or graded inspection before then. Some could receive an urgent or monitoring inspection, which can be deemed a graded inspection. 

About Waterhead Academy

  • Type: Academy
  • Boarding: Unknown
  • Religious character: None
  • Local authority: Oldham

Pupils

  • Age Range: 11 - 16
  • Gender: Mixed
  • Number of pupils: 1128
  • School capacity: 1500

Location

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  • Address: Huddersfield Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL4 3NY
  • Region: North West

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