Waterhead Academy Overview

Waterhead Academy is a secondary school located in Oldham and reports to the local authority of Oldham.

Waterhead Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1500 students but currently only enrols 1128 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Waterhead Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 40.5% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 44.5% of students at the school.

49.2% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Waterhead Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities