Altrincham Grammar School for Boys

Selective

National rank

33

24

Rank last year

82.2%

A-level

A-level

A*-B

79.2%

GCSE

GCSE

9/8/7

Need to know

Head teacher Graeme Wright
Attendance 96.5%
Gender of entry Boys
Send pupils* 9.4% *Special educational needs and disabilities
Total pupils 1,426
Pupils on free school meals 5.7%
Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE
Our methodology
Results

A-level 2025 rank: 47

Grade

%

A*

23.3

A

35.1

B

23.8

A*/A

58.4

A*-B

82.2

GCSE 2025 rank: 34

Grade

%

9/8

59.5

7

19.8

9/8/7

79.2

What the school inspection says

“Pupils, and students in the sixth form … exude kindness towards each other. They said that they feel very safe in school. Pupils and students demonstrate the highest levels of respect, responsibility and resilience. Leaders and staff are exceedingly ambitious for pupils and students. Pupils and students relish the challenge to excel. They are eager, and they demonstrate a thirst for learning. Pupils’ and students’ academic achievements are impressive. They mirror their excellent engagement in an exciting range of personal development opportunities … Staff have high aspirations for pupils and students with special education needs and/or disabilities (Send) … Leaders have listened to the views of parents in creating a highly ambitious programme of wider personal development. Pupils and students make impressive gains in their knowledge of how to be safe, how to have healthy relationships and how to make a positive contribution to society.”
Inspection
2022
*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

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