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  • The Fallibroome Academy
    Priory Lane
    Upton
    Macclesfield
    Cheshire
    SK10 4AF
  • Head: Ross Martland
  • T 01625 827898
  • F 01625 820051
  • E [email protected]
  • W fallibroome.academy
  • A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
  • Boarding: No
  • Local authority: Cheshire East
  • Pupils: 1,555; sixth formers: 360
  • Religion: None
  • Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
  • 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 30th November 2022
  • Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 28th February 2013
  • Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

What says..

This large, wonderful school offers an educational smorgasbord which is as rich and as plentiful as you will find anywhere. The school facilities certainly help back up the teaching - there are nine science labs and every teaching room has e-learning facilities so the use of new technologies is embedded. One parent commented on her child’s ‘fantastic’ IT knowledge, saying the school was ‘always one step ahead’. The glossy What’s On programme is worthy of a West End theatre: spanning all types of concerts, theatrical offerings, including a…

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What the school says...

Converted to an academy 2010.

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What The Good Schools Guide says

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Since September 2024, Ross Martland, previously deputy headteacher for eight years. He teaches maths and was a senior leader in two other high-performing state secondary schools. He spent three years working as a volunteer overseas, including a period as the headteacher of a rural Jamaican primary school.

Entrance

Applications from pupils from the seven feeder primary schools are prioritised, along with other criteria, such as siblings. All new joiners are invited to spend a day during the summer term to acclimatise. Sixth form applicants need at least three GCSEs at grade 5 or above and preferably four at grade 4 or above, including maths and English. They also need to meet individual subject entry criteria.

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Please note: Independent schools frequently offer IGCSEs or other qualifications alongside or as an alternative to GCSE. The DfE does not record performance data for these exams so independent school GCSE data is frequently misleading; parents should check the results with the schools.

Who came from where

Who goes where

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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most years
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sometimes, but not in this year


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