Royal School, Manchester
Special / other · Stockport · SK8 6RQ
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Outstanding. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 16 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
67 pupils · 84% of 80 capacity
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Age range
- 4–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 27.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.seashelltrust.org.uk
- URN
- 106166
GCSE results (2024/2025)
7 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 15 November 2022: School remains Outstanding
- 27 September 2016: Yes - improving (outstanding)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.