Buile Hill Academy
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Salford
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Salford City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Buile Hill Academy is a secondary school in Salford for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Salford has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Buile Hill 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 |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 51% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25 (England 45%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Salford.
- Year 7 2026 drew 111 first-choice applications for 178 offers, 0.6 first choices per offer and the lowest of 15 Salford secondary schools.
- Of the Year 7 2026 offers, 110 went to first-choice families and 68 to families who ranked it second or lower; 1 first-choice family (1%) was not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 45.3% of pupils; the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Salford is 37.9%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Salford schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Eccles Old Road, Salford, M6 8RD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Salford
- Pupils on roll
- 870 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 45.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 51% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.9 | 46 |
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: 111 first-preference applications, 178 offers in total, 110 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 Salford.
- All Hallows RC High School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Albion Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Ellesmere Park High School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- AldridgeUTC@MediaCityUK 1.3 mi Good
- Oasis Academy MediaCityUK 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Beis Yaakov High School 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Moorside High School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Swinton 2.2 mi Good Last distance published