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  • Melland High School
    Gorton Education Village
    50 Wembley Road
    Gorton
    Greater Manchester
    M18 7DT
  • Head: Mrs Sue Warner
  • T 0161 223 9915
  • F 01612 306919
  • E [email protected]
  • W www.melland.manchester.sch.uk
  • A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 19.
  • Boarding: No
  • Local authority: Manchester
  • Pupils: 185
  • Religion: Does not apply
  • Ofsted:
    • Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
      • Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
    • 1 Short inspection 27th March 2024
    • 2 Full inspection 27th February 2013

    Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.

  • Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

This is not currently a GSG-reviewed school.

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Who came from where

Who goes where

Special Education Needs

We contacted the school and they didn't want to make a statement. However, The Good Schools Guide writes: Melland High is a community special school catering for pupils mainly with severe learning difficulties. In addition, a number of pupils have more profound learning difficulties, including some with challenging behaviour. The school was inspected by OFSTED in 2004. They received a glowing report beginning: 'Melland High School is outstandingly effective. It is an oasis of excellence.' Adding: 'The school’s progress in improving pupils’ achievement has been outstanding since the last inspection.' Melland High holds a number of awards including Healthy Schools and Investors in People. The school, a beacon for inclusive learning, has been granted specialist school status, from September 06 with the curriculum specialism of cognition and learning. There are plans for the school to move to a new campus with Cedar Mount High School through the Building Schools for the Future campaign.

Condition Provision for in school
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
HI - Hearing Impairment
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
PD - Physical Disability
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty Y
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
VI - Visual Impairment

Interpreting catchment maps

The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.

Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.

For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained

Further reading

If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.

Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.

Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.

*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.

The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.

Children get into the school from here:

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most years
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infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year


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