St Ambrose Barlow RC High School
37 Ash Drive, Wardley, Manchester, M27 9QP
Local ranking4th of 16 secondary schools in Salford
Ofsted: Good
Secondary
Phase
1050
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 44.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 38.0%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 66.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 31.7%
- EBacc APS
- 3.8
- Cohort Size
- 205
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 90.0%
- Continued in education
- 83.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 4.0%
- Employment
- 3.0%
- Not sustained
- 6.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1068
- Boys
- 540 (51%)
- Girls
- 528 (49%)
- Capacity
- 1050 (102% full)
- SEND
- 22.7%
- FSM Eligible
- 28.6%
- EAL
- 19.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.5%
- SEN Support
- 19.2%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 8.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 119.6
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,524/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.7%
- Persistent Absence
- 20.4%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 64.7%
- White Other: 8.7%
- Other: 8.7%
- Mixed Other: 7.3%
- Black Other: 2.0%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 1.1%
- Black Caribbean: 1.1%
- Mixed White & Black African: 1.1%
64.7%
White British
8.7%
White Other
8.7%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Administrative
- URN
- 105989
- UKPRN
- 10017781
- Establishment No.
- 5400