Salford City Council uses cookies which are essential for this site to work. We also use non-essential cookies to help us improve our digital services.

Sign in to access your Salford customer account, or see our other accounts.

Sign in or register for an account

Help and support with cost of living

How secondary school places were allocated last year

The table below gives information on how school places have been allocated for September 2026. The documents at the bottom of the page also give this information for previous years. 

Once you have determined which admission criteria your child would be in, this may help you determine how likely your child is to get a place at a particular school.

This information should be used as a guide only as to what may happen in future years.

School Headteacher Total number of places available Total number of on time applications received Breakdown of offers at offer day (2 March 2026) Total number of offers made to on time applicants Total vacancies
All Hallows RC High School Mrs E Walker 155 522 All applicants in categories 1-7 (randomly allocated) Please contact the school if you require any further information. 155 0
Beis Yaakov Jewish High School Academy Rabbi Benjy Myers 40 52 Please contact school for finer detail 40 0
Buile Hill Academy Mr J Haslam 180 314 All applicants offered places 180 0
Ellesmere Park High School Mr I Ross 180 482 All applicants in categories 1-5 to a distance of 1.175 miles 180 0
The Lowry Academy Mrs C Coy 180 256 All applicants offered places 152 28
Irlam and Cadishead College Mr C Leader 240 209 All applicants offered places 179 31
Moorside High School Mrs H Ryles-Dean 210 567 All applicants in categories 1-5 to a distance of 1.077 miles 210 0
Oasis Academy: MediaCityUK Mr C Harris 206 265 All applicants offered places 179 27
Salford City Academy Mrs M Haselden 180 276 All applicants in categories 1-4 to a distance of 1.493 miles 180 0
St Ambrose Barlow RC High School Mr B Davis 210 461 All applicants in categories 1-11 to a distance of 3.122 miles 210 0
St Patrick's RC High School Mrs A Byrne 180 446 All applicants in categories 1-11 to a distance of 0.425 miles 180 0
The Albion Academy Mr M Rogers 195 248 All applicants offered places 195 0
Co-op Academy Swinton Ms Z Ali 215 273 All applicants offered places 167 48
Co-op Academy Walkden Mr M Hacker 300 498 All applicants in categories 1-5 to a distance of 2.27 miles 300 0
The Star Academy Miss L McBride 150 171 All applicants offered places 103 47

Downloadable documents

If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.

This page was last updated on 2 March 2026

Secondary

Rate this page