Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester, Manchester

Ofsted's report card from its 12 May 2026 inspection grades Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester on 6 areas: 6 exceptional. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Exceptional. "Pupils, including those with any barriers to their learning, make impressive progress from their starting points across all subjects and year groups."

Attendance and behaviour - Exceptional. "Consistently high standards of attendance have been maintained over time, including for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities."

Curriculum and teaching - Exceptional. "The curriculum is meticulously designed to ensure that pupils build knowledge over time."

Inclusion - Exceptional. "The school's ‘Every Star Matters' framework is integral to its work around inclusion."

Leadership and governance - Exceptional. "Leadership is the jewel in the school's crown."

Personal development and wellbeing - Exceptional. "The school's personal development offer transforms pupils' lives because it opens doors and opportunities that would ordinarily have been closed."

Safeguarding standards were met.

From the headteacher's welcome: "Through our vision to nurture today’s young people and inspire tomorrow’s leaders, we aim to offer our pupils a transformative educational experience which will prepare them for success personally, academically and socially."

In 2026, pupils at Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester averaged an Attainment 8 score of 61.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 47.3 in Manchester and 47 across England.

68% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 47% in Manchester and 47% in England.

That is up from 58.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 1.02: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 61.1, against 62.5 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 1.4 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 19 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and Other Modern Languages.

For September 2026 entry, 214 families put Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester as their first choice and 373 named it as one of their preferences, for 139 places offered. That is 1.5 first choices for every place. 77 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester are Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Manchester (0.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.5); Manchester Communication Academy (0.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 44.9); Abraham Moss Community School (1 mile, Attainment 8 38.8); and The King David High School (1.4 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 52.7).

Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester is one of 36 schools run by Star Academies, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 50.6 in 2024/25.

45 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester (as of April 2026): 98% would recommend the school, 96% say their child is happy there and 100% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (100%); the weakest, that they are kept well informed about progress (91%).

Of the 124 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 95% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 18% to a further education college.

45.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 49.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (72%), other ethnic groups (12%) and Mixed (10%).

In 2026, 57 pupils (8.6%) received SEN support and 22 (3.3%) 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 speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Queens Road (Manchester Metrolink), about 420 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hawkeshead Road (near), 320 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester issued 11 suspensions, 1.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester are St Malachy's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (0.3 miles); St Chad's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (0.3 miles); Saviour CofE Primary School (0.3 miles); and Oasis Academy Temple (0.4 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.