Manchester City Council

Schools, education and childcare The demand for secondary school places

This guide shows the possible demand for schools you might be interested in.

It shows how offers were made for Year 7 places for September 2026 to on-time applicants and to late applicants received up to 22/02/2026.   Where there are more parents applying for a place in a school/Academy than there are places available, the oversubscription criteria is used to decide which applicants are offered a place.

More detail about the admission process, and copies of the admissions criteria for all secondary schools/academies can be found at www.manchester.gov.uk/admissions.

There's no guarantee that the demand for schools will be the same next year, so use this as a guide only.

Abraham Moss School 

Places: 270
Offers made: 238*^
Unfilled places: 32
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Burnage Academy for Boys

Places: 210
Offers made: 210
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone in category 1, 2 or 3, who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences. If they were in category 5 they had to live within 2.152  miles.

Cedar Mount Academy

Places: 180
Offers made: 129*^
Unfilled places: 51
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Chorlton High School

Places: 300
Offers made: 300
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone in category 1, 2 or 3, who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences. If they were in category 5 they had to live within 1.375  miles.

CHS South

Places: 240
Offers made: 240*^
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Co-op Academy Belle Vue

Places: 240
Offers made: 240
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone in category 1, 2 or 3, who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences. If they were in category 5 they had to live within 0.853 miles.

Co-op Academy Manchester

Places: 330
Offers made: 275*^
Unfilled places: 55
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Co-op Academy North Manchester

Places: 240
Offers made: 240
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone in category 1, 2 or 3, who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences. If they were in category 5 they had to live within 1.267  miles.

Dean Trust Ardwick

Places: 270
Offers made: 242*^
Unfilled places: 28
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Didsbury High School

Places: 220
Offers made: 220
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone in category 1, 2, 3 or 4 who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences. If they were in category 5 they had to live within 0.999 miles.

Dixons Brooklands Academy

Places: 210
Offers made: 141*^
Unfilled places: 69
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Dixons Newall Green Academy

Places: 140
Offers made: 140*^
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Eden Boys’ Leadership Academy

Places: 145
Offers made: 145
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

Eden Girls’ Leadership Academy

Places: 145
Offers made: 145
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

King David High School

Places: 90
Offers made: 90
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

Levenshulme High School

Places: 220
Offers made: 220
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone in category 1, 2 or 3, who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences. If they were in category 4 they had to live within 1.623  miles.

Loreto High School

Places: 160
Offers made: 160*^
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

Manchester Academy

Places: 240
Offers made: 166*^
Unfilled places: 74
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

Manchester Communication Academy

Places: 300
Offers made: 300*^
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Manchester Enterprise Academy

Places: 240
Offers made: 227*
Unfilled places: 13
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Manchester Enterprise Academy Central

Places: 210
Offers made: 210*^
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Our Lady's R.C. High School

Places: 210
Offers made: 210
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

Parrs Wood High School

Places: 300
Offers made: 300
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone in category 1, 2 or 3 and 4 who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences. If they were in category 5 they had to live within 2.275  miles.

St Matthew's R.C. High School

Places: 270
Offers made: 259*^
Unfilled places: 11
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

St Paul's Catholic High School

Places: 180
Offers made: 180
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

St Peter's RC High School

Places: 200
Offers made: 200
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

The Barlow R.C. High School

Places: 190
Offers made: 190
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

The East Manchester Academy

Places: 220
Offers made: 200*^
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

Trinity Church of England High School

Places: 240
Offers made: 240
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

Whalley Range High School for Girls

Places: 270
Offers made: 270*^
Unfilled places: 0
Everyone who put this school as a preference got a place - or got a place at one of their higher preferences.

William Hulme's Grammar School Academy

Places: 180
Offers made: 180
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

Wright Robinson College

Places: 360
Offers made: 360
Unfilled places: 0
The school used its own admission rules to decide who got places. Contact the school for details.

 

Indicates the total number of offers made includes alternative offers.  Alternative offers are made to Manchester children where an offer of one of their preferences cannot be made.

^ indicates the total number of offers made includes late applications for this school. Offers for late applications have been made for schools with places remaining after all on-time applications have been offered. Only late applications received up to the 22/02/2026 have been considered in time for offer day. Applications received after this date will receive an offer in round 2 after offer day.