Hazel Grove High School, Stockport

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades Hazel Grove High School on 7 areas: 4 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. "Inclusion sits at the heart of leaders' decision-making."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders, trustees and governors share a clear, ambitious vision for the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have created a highly effective personal development programme."

Post 16 provision - Strong standard. "Students follow an ambitious and broad academic curriculum."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well across key stages 3 and 4."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed an inclusive environment in which pupils develop a genuine sense of belonging."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have a clear and ambitious vision for the curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that the curriculum is taught consistently well across all subjects, particularly with regard to the effectiveness of teachers' checks on learning, so that pupils' achievement improves further"; "Leaders should continue their work to increase the attendance of disadvantaged pupils".

In its own words: "The central focus at Hazel Grove High School is the achievement of our students. This is not solely defined by academic standards as we recognise that achievement will take many forms depending on the individual potential, interests and talents of each young person."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball, chess, cooking, film, Duke of Edinburgh, journalism, book club and philosophy.

Coming up: an open evening on Wednesday 4 November 2026 at 6pm and an admissions event on Thursday 5 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at Hazel Grove High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 52.7, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 49.1 in Stockport and 47 across England.

55% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 51% in Stockport and 47% in England.

That is up from 48.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.19: pupils made 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 37.2, against 55.5 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 18.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 29 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Spanish and History.

For September 2026 entry, 247 families put Hazel Grove High School as their first choice and 1048 named it as one of their preferences, for 263 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 15 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Hazel Grove High School are Bramhall High School (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 49.2); Stockport School (1.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.9); Poynton High School (2.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 54.4); and Cheadle Hulme High School (2.2 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 59.3).

Hazel Grove High School's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Hazel Grove High School is one of 13 schools run by The Laurus Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 54.6 in 2024/25.

Of the 265 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 86% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 40% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Of the 22 students who left the sixth form in 2022/23, 55% went on to university or other higher education and 27% into work. 25% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

16.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 12.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (79%) and Asian (5%).

Hazel Grove High School has a resourced provision for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, visual impairment, hearing impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, physical disability, moderate learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties: 6 places, 6 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Hazel Grove Rail Station, about 1150 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hazel Grove High School (at), 80 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Hazel Grove High School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 8th decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Hazel Grove High School issued 292 suspensions, 20.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 6 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Hazel Grove High School are Moorfield Primary School (0.2 miles), St Peter's Catholic Primary School (0.3 miles), Norbury Hall Primary School (0.6 miles) and Ladybrook Primary School (0.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.