Poynton High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Stockport, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.403 miles
5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Poynton High School is a secondary school in Stockport, Cheshire East for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 June 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Poynton High School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 2.403 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 248 first-choice applications for 243 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 9th highest of 20 Cheshire East secondary schools.
- 217 of the 491 applications (44%) for Year 7 in 2026 came from families living outside Cheshire East, and 36 offers went to them.
- In 2026, the last child offered a Year 7 place under one of its admission criteria lived 2.403 miles away; the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 53 (England 46).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Cheshire East schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Yew Tree Lane, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1PU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 1,467 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 June 2023
Strengths
- “Staff at Poynton High School have high aspirations for the achievement of pupils and students in the sixth form.”
- “They provide effective guidance and support to help pupils to choose suitable courses that match their interests.”
- “Most pupils and students achieve highly.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects across key stages 3 and 4, there is more variability in how well teachers deliver the curriculum.”
- “From time to time, teachers select activities and resources that do not support pupils to learn the knowledge identified in the curriculum sufficiently well.”
- “This limits how deeply some pupils learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 53% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 53 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 248 first-preference applications, 243 offers in total, 231 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Cheshire East.
- Wilmslow High School 5.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Tytherington School 5.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Fallibroome Academy 5.5 mi Good Last distance published
- All Hallows Catholic College 6.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Macclesfield Academy 6.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Knutsford Academy 11.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eaton Bank Academy 12.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Congleton High School 13.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published