Community special school

Park Lane School

Mixed · ages 4–19 · with sixth formCheshire East, North West · Macclesfield SK11 8JRSchool website
Pupils on roll
151of 150 places
Free school meals
47.3%
Year 11 cohort 2025
9
Ofsted
Good, 21 May 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

The Department for Education has not published where Park Lane School’s Year 11 leavers went next (the cohort is too small to report), so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.

Park Lane School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 0.7, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Cheshire East and England.

The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

MeasurePark Lane SchoolCheshire EastEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)0.747.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%45%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%68%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%39%41%
EBacc average point score0.004.104.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort56%19%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils32.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.650.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language11%9%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Fine Art111%9%28%

Other secondary schools in Cheshire East

Alsager School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,528 pupils

88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.9

Brine Leas School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,417 pupils

89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.7

Congleton High School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,174 pupils

83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.8

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.