St Ambrose College A GSG School
- St Ambrose College
Hale Road
Halebarns
Altrincham
Cheshire
WA15 0HE - Head: Dermot Rainey
- T 01619 802711
- F 01619 802323
- E office@st-ambrosecollege.org.uk
- W www.st-ambrosecollege.org.uk/
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Trafford
- Pupils: 1,092; sixth formers: 282
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Open days: June, September, November
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 18th February 2020
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
From our tour guide (who automatically bent down to pick up a stray bit of litter when showing us the sports pitches) through to boys we saw packing up donations of coats (for a refugee charity), the pupils we met were thoughtful and full of energy and ideas. ‘They’re all really lovely lads and when they see something’s not right, they want to get out there and do something about it,’ said one parent. Parents say school takes a balanced approach to academic achievement. ‘Standards are high and sometimes the boys need a little push, but it’s not what you’d call pressurised,’ one said. ‘Doing well is definitely cool,’ said another, ‘and the boys are competitive in a good way.’ School makes a point of picking out...
What the school says...
Year 7-11 the Entrance examinations consist of: 11 - Maths English & VR (no interviews).
Sixth Form: Minimum (or equivalent) of Five B grades at GCSE with at least a grade B (or equivalent) in the subject to be studied at A Level and at least a grade C (or equivalent) is expected in Maths and English Language. ...Read more
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State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Principal
Since 2018, Dermot Rainey, who has a BEd in RS with history from St Mary’s University College, Belfast. Grew up in Derry City, taught in Manchester for two years before moving to Mayo to teach at Rice College, (part of the same Edmund Rice network as St Ambrose). Returned to Greater Manchester for leadership roles at All Saints Catholic College and Cardinal Langley RC High School. Joined St Ambrose as vice principal in 2017.
Comes from a family of teachers and grew up with a love of music (he’s a former cathedral chorister) and sport. ‘What other job can you bring your passions along with you like teaching?’ he says. Still loves teaching when he can (enjoyed a recent stint in the RS GCSE classroom) and, while the demands of...
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Interpreting catchment maps
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Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Altrincham Preparatory School | 2024 | 4 |
| Hale Preparatory School | 2024 | 2 |
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