How far do you need to live from a school in Tameside to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 22 Tameside schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.91 miles away; the tightest was Godley Community Primary Academy at 0.33 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Tameside schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Tameside schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Tameside publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 22 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

22schools with a published figure

0.91 mithe middle school's distance

12filled within a mile

The tightest is Godley Community Primary Academy at 0.33 miles in varies; the most far-reaching, St Raphael's Catholic Primary School, admitted from 6.71 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Godley Community Primary Academy Hyde	Good	0.33 mi	varies	118%
Dowson Primary Academy Hyde	Good	0.44 mi	varies	100%
Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne	Good	0.47 mi	varies	100%
Audenshaw Primary School Manchester	Requires improvement	0.5 mi	varies	100%
Greenside Primary School Manchester	Good	0.6 mi	varies	106%
St Peter's CofE Primary School Ashton-under-Lyne	No current grade	0.65 mi	varies	100%
St James' Church of England Primary School Ashton-under-Lyne	No current grade	0.85 mi	varies	110%
Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision Hyde	No current grade	0.9 mi	varies	106%
Holden Clough Primary School Ashton-under-Lyne	Good	0.91 mi	varies	72%
Livingstone Primary School Ashton-under-Lyne	No current grade	1.31 mi	varies	91%
St Paul's CofE Primary School, Stalybridge	Good	1.59 mi	varies	75%
Canon Burrows CofE Primary School Ashton-under-Lyne	Good	1.67 mi	varies	103%
St Mary's RC Primary School Manchester	No current grade	2.63 mi	varies	109%
St Raphael's Catholic Primary School Stalybridge	No current grade	6.71 mi	varies	90%

Secondary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Laurus Ryecroft Manchester	Outstanding	0.63 mi	varies	85%
Fairfield High School for Girls Manchester	Good	0.72 mi	varies	101%
Alder Community High School Hyde	Requires improvement	1.28 mi	varies	101%
West Hill School Stalybridge	No current grade	1.39 mi	varies	100%
Mossley Hollins High School Ashton-under-Lyne	Good	2.04 mi	varies	99%
Audenshaw School Manchester	Good	2.07 mi	varies	94%
St Damian's RC Science College Ashton-under-Lyne	No current grade	4.22 mi	varies	100%

Special schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Tame Bank Stalybridge	No current grade	0.55 mi	varies	37%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Tameside measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Tameside. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.