Voluntary aided school · Secondary
Ashton-under-Lyne · OL6 8BH · Tameside
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 135508
Dixons Ashton Academy
Academy sponsor led · Ashton-under-Lyne · OL6 8RF
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–16
Pupils
1,326
Local authority
Tameside
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, 1,326 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 52%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 135508
Location
- Address
- Broadoak Road
- Postcode
- OL6 8RF
- Town
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- County
- Lancashire
- Local authority
- Tameside
- District
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,326
- Boys / girls
- 575 / 751
- School capacity
- 1,350
- Capacity fill
- 1,326 / 1,350 (98%)
- Free school meals
- 52%
- FSM pupils
- 690
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: DIXONS ACADEMIES TRUST
- Academy trust
- DIXONS ACADEMIES TRUST
- Sponsor
- Dixons Academies Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Matthew Little
- Telephone
- 01612419555
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-03-11
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 36.0
- Progress 8
- -0.6
- English & maths grade 5+
- 28%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 49%
- EBacc entry
- 26%
- EBacc APS
- 3.2