UK Schools
Sandbach School
Sandbach School is a boys' secondary free school in Sandbach, Cheshire East Council, teaching 1,534 pupils aged 11 to 19. Ofsted graded quality of education as Good at its most recent inspection in March 2025. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 48.2 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 1 September 2025 to 20 July 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Sandbach School.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Sandbach School.
- 1 Staff return (INSET Day)
- 1–30 Autumn Term Dates
- 2 Y7 and Y12 students return
- 3 All students return
- 1–31 Autumn Term Dates
- 27–31 Autumn Half Term Holiday
- 1–30 Autumn Term Dates
- 1–19 Autumn Term Dates
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday
- 25 Christmas Day (Bank Holiday)
- 26 Boxing Day (Bank Holiday)
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday
- 1 New Year's Day (Bank Holiday)
- 5–31 Spring Term Dates
- 1–28 Spring Term Dates
- 16–20 Spring Half Term Holiday
- 1–20 Spring Term Dates
- 23–31 Easter Holiday
- 1–3 Easter Holiday
- 3 Good Friday (Bank Holiday)
- 6–30 Summer Term Dates
- 6 Easter Monday (Bank Holiday)
- 1–31 Summer Term Dates
- 4 Early May Bank Holiday
- 25–29 Summer Half Term Holiday
- 25 Spring Bank Holiday
- 1–30 Summer Term Dates
- 1–20 Summer Term Dates
- 21–31 Summer Holiday
- 1–31 Summer Holiday
- 31 Summer Bank Holiday
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Staff return (INSET Day) Sep 1, 2025 Inset Day
- Y7 and Y12 students return Sep 2, 2025 Event
- All students return Sep 3, 2025 Event
- Autumn Half Term Holiday Oct 27-31, 2025 Holiday
- Christmas Holiday Dec 22, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 Holiday
- Spring Half Term Holiday Feb 16-20, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday Mar 23, 2026 - Apr 3, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Half Term Holiday May 25-29, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Holiday Jul 21 - Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- Autumn Term Dates Sep 1 - Dec 19, 2025 Term
- Spring Term Dates Jan 5 - Mar 20, 2026 Term
- Summer Term Dates Apr 6 - Jul 20, 2026 Term
- New Year's Day (Bank Holiday) Jan 1, 2026 Holiday
- Good Friday (Bank Holiday) Apr 3, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Monday (Bank Holiday) Apr 6, 2026 Holiday
- Early May Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
- Spring Bank Holiday May 25, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Bank Holiday Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- Christmas Day (Bank Holiday) Dec 25, 2025 Holiday
- Boxing Day (Bank Holiday) Dec 26, 2025 Holiday
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Sandbach School with Cheshire East Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 48.2 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
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16 to 18 (A level & sixth form) 33.21 A level average point score
Results for students finishing post-16 study.
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Attendance 18.3% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
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What pupils do after GCSEs 97% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
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What students do after 16 to 18 study 93% In education, apprenticeship or work
Destinations the year after finishing post-16 study.
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About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Sandbach School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Sandbach School than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.