Dixons Newall Green Academy, Manchester

Ofsted's report card from its 30 June 2026 inspection grades Dixons Newall Green Academy on 6 areas: 3 strong standard and 3 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders have deliberately engineered all aspects of the school's provision to be inclusive."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "The trust has provided comprehensive, coherent and highly effective support for school leaders at all levels."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have created a culture of belonging, responsibility and care."

Achievement - Expected standard. "On the whole, pupils learn well and make progress through the curriculum."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Although pupils' overall attendance is below the national average, leaders' high-quality work over the past 2 years has brought about improvements at an impressive rate."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have constructed a highly ambitious curriculum, which is well designed to build pupils' knowledge of a wide range of subjects."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teaching strategies consistently take account of pupils' differing starting points, including their special educational needs and/or disabilities, reducing any inconsistencies in the quality of pupils' classroom experiences. This is to ensure that gaps in pupils' knowledge reduce so that all pupils progress through the curriculum as smoothly as they should".

In its own words: "Our practice is thoroughly rooted in this mission and in the following three core values: We never give up. We do what it takes for as long as it takes. We do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. We do this even when people are not watching."

For September 2026 entry, 72 families put Dixons Newall Green Academy as their first choice and 266 named it as one of their preferences, for 130 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Dixons Newall Green Academy are Saint Paul's Catholic High School (0.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 38.4); Manchester Enterprise Academy (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 33); Dixons Brooklands Academy (1.3 miles, Attainment 8 39.9); and Altrincham College (1.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47).

Dixons Newall Green Academy is one of 21 schools run by Dixons Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.7 in 2024/25.

56.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 12.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (72%) and Asian (6%).

In 2026, 108 pupils (29.7%) received SEN support and 26 (7.1%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Roundthorn (Manchester Metrolink), about 980 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Rodborough Road (near), 120 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Dixons Newall Green Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Dixons Newall Green Academy issued 172 suspensions, 68.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Dixons Newall Green Academy are St Peter's Catholic Primary School (0.3 miles), Newall Green Primary School (0.5 miles), Baguley Hall Primary School (0.8 miles) and Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School (0.9 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.