Academy sponsor led

Levenshulme High School

Girls · ages 11–16 · no sixth formManchester, North West · Manchester M19 1FSTrust: Greater Manchester Education TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,057of 1,100 places
Free school meals
54.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
207
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding, 9 June 2022Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Levenshulme High School (URN 105568, until 13 August 2014).

What the data says

Levenshulme High School has no sixth form. Of the 202 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 47% moved to a sixth form college, 19% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 47% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Sociology is unusually popular at GCSE: 21% of the year group took it, against 4% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 52.5 against 46.1 across England and 44.8 in Manchester, with 53% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

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 Manchester and England.

Levenshulme High School
Manchester
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureLevenshulme High SchoolManchesterEngland
Pupils in the cohort2026,414607,348
Any sustained destination95%89%92%
Stayed in education94%86%86%
— school sixth form28%15%34%
— sixth form college47%30%13%
— further education college19%39%37%
— other education0%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%1%3%
Employment1%2%3%
No sustained destination2%7%6%
Destination unknown3%4%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureLevenshulme High SchoolManchesterEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)52.544.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths53%41%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths68%61%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects80%47%41%
EBacc average point score5.084.014.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort52%52%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils48.439.434.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils57.050.650.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language77%44%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
English Language207100%89%23%20%72%
Mathematics207100%88%30%22%71%
Religious Studies20599%31%29%32%81%
English Literature20398%86%27%21%82%
Combined Science16379%65%20%9%73%
Geography12761%41%23%25%72%
French4823%18%44%29%88%
Spanish4823%19%38%27%77%
Urdu4823%1%58%42%96%
History4823%41%27%26%67%
Sociology4421%4%23%21%84%
Biology4321%23%51%45%77%
Food Preparation and Nutrition4321%8%2%21%44%
Chemistry3316%23%70%47%100%
Physics3316%23%67%46%100%
Business Studies2311%18%35%20%96%
Art and Design2311%7%4%24%65%
Drama2211%7%23%27%86%
Ancient History2211%0%32%37%91%
German199%5%16%33%84%
Arabic136%1%100%47%100%
Computer Science115%13%36%30%73%
Music94%5%22%33%67%
Italian42%0%53%
Chinese21%1%75%
Japanese10%0%53%

Other secondary schools in Manchester

Cedar Mount Academy

Academy sponsor led · 724 pupils

83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.2

CHS South

Free schools · 1,177 pupils

85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.3

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.