Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College A GSG School
- Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College
Middlewich Road
Sandbach
Cheshire
CW11 3NT - Head: Ellen Walton
- T 01270 765031
- F 01270 768544
- E officeAdmin@sandbachhigh.co.uk
- W www.sandbachhigh.co.uk
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Cheshire East
- Pupils: 1,388; sixth formers: 220 (5 per cent boys)
- Religion: None
- Open days: September, November, July
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 12th October 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The Complete and Utter Chaos Club (CAUC, or Electric Car Club, as it is known) is fantastic: girls get to design, build and race several electric cars in the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge competition. The current prototype, Dylan (all are named after characters in the Magic Roundabout), has been particularly successful. Like Dickens’ Pip, the parents here have, quite rightly, Great Expectations. Although the school is non-selective with a broad demographic, their ambitions for their children are well honed...
What the school says...
Academy converter 2011.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since September 2020, Ellen Walton. Previously senior deputy head at another local outstanding secondary school for 14 years (where she did her NPQH) and prior to that she worked in Walsall near Birmingham for four years. Has also worked as a specialist leader of education for behaviour, safeguarding, attendance and English. Degree in English from Liverpool; PGCE from Birmingham.
Entrance
Priority, after looked after children and those with medical/social needs, to girls living in the catchment area. Siblings come next, then children of staff, then those at a partner primary school.
Due to how oversubscribed the school has become, they have now increased their intake to 240 students per year. Head insists on parents and potential pupils visiting the school, suggesting that if a parent sees that spark of anticipation in their...
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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.
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