Fee-paying schools in OL6, Tameside

4 fee-paying schools sit within 3 miles of central OL6, the nearest being Safe Start School at 0.9 mi, 1 of them selective, 1 single-sex. Nearest first; each age range is the school's own statutory range, which decides whether it takes a given year group.

School	Distance	Ages	Takes
Safe Start School	0.9 mi	11 to 19	Secondary
Trinity School	1.4 mi	3 to 16	All-through Christian
Hulme Grammar School	2.8 mi	3 to 18	All-through Selective
Sapience Girls Academy	2.9 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Girls

No Ofsted grades here, and that is not a bad sign. Fee-paying schools like Safe Start School are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, and the ISI publishes no open data feed, so no rating exists for us to show. Fees are not open data either.

The state schools alongside them

OL6 also holds 58 state primary and 11 state secondary schools, with Ofsted ratings and exam results. The full school breakdown for OL6 →

Checking a specific address

Put a postcode in and the report measures each school's distance from that front door rather than from central OL6.

Common questions

How many private schools are there in OL6?

4 fee-paying schools within 3 miles of central OL6, Tameside, from the Department for Education's register. Each one's age range, whether it selects and how full it is are listed on this page.

Do private schools in OL6 have Ofsted ratings?

No, and a blank rating is not a bad sign. Fee-paying schools are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, and the ISI publishes no open data feed, so no rating exists for us to show.

Are private schools in OL6 selective?

1 of the 4 select on ability at entry, according to their admissions policy on the register. The rest do not, though most fee-paying schools still assess applicants in some way.

Are there single-sex private schools in OL6?

1 of the 4 take boys only or girls only. The rest are mixed.

Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools. Read how every figure here is sourced on the methodology page. If something looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.