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Pioneer House High School

Mixed · ages 11–19 · with sixth formManchester, North West · Manchester M23 0FFTrust: Prospere Learning TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
170of 170 places
Free school meals
75.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
17
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 22 January 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 21 pupils who finished Year 11 at Pioneer House High School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Pioneer House High School’s own sixth form (Manchester average 15%), 29% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 0.4 against 46.1 across England and 44.8 in Manchester, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

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.

Pioneer House High School
Manchester
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasurePioneer House High SchoolManchesterEngland
Pupils in the cohort216,414607,348
Any sustained destination90%89%92%
Stayed in education90%86%86%
— school sixth form0%15%34%
— sixth form college0%30%13%
— further education college29%39%37%
— other education62%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%1%3%
Employment0%2%3%
No sustained destination0%7%6%
Destination unknown10%4%3%

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

MeasurePioneer House High SchoolManchesterEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)0.444.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%41%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%61%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%47%41%
EBacc average point score0.024.014.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort71%52%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils39.434.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.650.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language12%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 Language16%89%20%
Mathematics16%88%22%

Where Pioneer House High School is

Other secondary schools in Manchester are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Manchester’s allocation statistics.

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.