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  • Parrs Wood High School
    Wilmslow Road
    East Didsbury
    Manchester
    M20 5PG
  • Head: Mr Mark McElwee
  • T 0161 446 8640
  • F 01614 455974
  • E [email protected]
  • W www.parrswood.…nchester.sch.uk
  • A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
  • Boarding: No
  • Local authority: Manchester
  • Pupils: 1927
  • Religion: Does not apply
  • Open days: Late October / early November.
  • Ofsted:
    • Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
    • 1 Short inspection 16th May 2019

    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

Our SEN staff comprise a faculty within the school, with a wide range of experience across the support and teaching staff within the faculty. The support our students receive combines in-class support and one-to-one sessions with a key member of the team. We have an intervention programme aimed at raising the attainment of those students identified as working at level 3 or below in year 6 of primary school - this intervention begins during the summer term before the students arrive at Parrs Wood for year 7. Since Sept 2004 we have also had specialist provision for hearing impaired students at the school, with the students following a mixed curriculum - supported in mainstream lessons and spending part of the school day working as a group with specialist staff in their own base within school.

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:

regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year


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