SMS Changing Lives School
Other independent special school · Ages 11–16 · Oldham
SMS Changing Lives School is an independent special school in Oldham for ages 11–16.
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Key facts
- Address
- Unit 2, Aniseed Park, Oldham Broadway Business Park, Oldham, OL9 9XA
- Type
- Other independent special school
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Council
- Oldham
- Pupils on roll
- 35 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- z of pupils eligible
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Strengths
- “Staff at SMS Changing Lives are focused on supporting pupils to re-engage with education.”
- “Pupils have the support that they need to develop trusting and positive relationships with their peers and others who they encounter.”
- “Typically, pupils attend school more than previously.”
To improve
- “However, some of the curriculums are not delivered as successfully.”
- “This impedes how well some pupils achieve across the curriculum.”
- “In some subjects, checks on pupils’ learning are not as effective in identifying what they know and have remembered.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 July 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Straight-line distance, in Oldham.
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