Edgar Wood Academy
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–16 · Heywood, Rochdale
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Rochdale Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
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Edgar Wood Academy is a secondary school in Heywood, Rochdale for ages 11–16 (free schools). Rochdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2026 entry.
Edgar Wood Academy 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, as at 5 of the 12 other Rochdale secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 52 first-choice applications for 76 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer, the 2nd lowest of 13 Rochdale secondary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, and 24 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 13.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 16.1 across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Rochdale.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Rochdale schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Heywood Old Road, Heywood, OL10 2QN
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Rochdale
- Pupils on roll
- 729 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 2 June 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are delighted by the improvements that leaders have recently made to the school.”
- “In particular, pupils appreciate that staffing has stabilised and many cited their teachers as the best thing about school.”
- “Warm and positive interactions between staff and pupils begin when pupils line up in the morning and continue throughout the day.”
To improve
- “However, difficulties with writing persist for a small number of pupils.”
- “However, overall rates of attendance are still not high enough.”
- “Some pupils do not attend school as often as they should.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 July 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 52 first-preference applications, 76 offers in total, 52 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 Rochdale.
- St Anne's Church of England Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Newhouse Academy 1.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Roman Catholic and Church of England College 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dixons Middleton Academy 2.0 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Matthew Moss High School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy 4.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oulder Hill Leadership Academy 4.1 mi Not judged Last distance published