SCHOOL PROFILE

Edgar Wood Academy: data, trends and context

Edgar Wood Academy is a secondary school in Rochdale. This page brings together its published attendance, behaviour, attainment, inspection and pupil-context information, alongside historical trends and comparisons with schools serving similar communities.

School identity

URN
148596
Phase
Secondary
Establishment type
Free schools
Status
Open
Local authority
Rochdale
Region
North West
Trust
ALTUS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
Postcode
OL10 2QN
Gender intake
Mixed
Religious character
None
School website

Pupil and community context

Pupils on roll
729
FSM eligible
42.7%
EAL / First language other than English
16.7%
SEND (total)
20.2%
SEN Support
16.9%
EHCP
3.3%
White British
66.3%

Attendance and absence (2024/25)

Attendance rate
90.3%
Overall absence
9.7%
Persistent absence
30.7%
Severe absence
5.9%

Current benchmarks (2025/26 to date)

Secondary schools
ComparatorAttendanceOverall absenceUnauthorised
RochdaleLocal authority90.9%9.1%4.9%
North WestRegion91.2%8.8%3.8%
EnglandEngland91.4%8.6%3.3%

Session-weighted year-to-date rates to 17 July 2026. Source: DfE Explore Education Statistics, pupil attendance (daily), published 6 August 2026. The school figures above are from a different published year, so no direct difference is shown.

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

Suspension rate
67.8%
Pupils with 1+ suspension
18.2%
Permanent exclusion rate
1.3%

Data sources and last updated

  • Published Department for Education and Ofsted data.
  • Historical predecessor information is shown only where the DfE lineage record has been validated. It is clearly labelled as historical predecessor-establishment data.
  • Missing or suppressed values are shown as gaps, never as zero.
  • For interactive comparisons with 25 contextually similar schools, open this school in School DNA.
  • Profile last updated: 2026-07-07.

Contextual comparison

See Edgar Wood Academy against 25 similar schools

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Edgar Wood Academy is a secondary school in Rochdale. This page brings together its published attendance, behaviour, attainment, inspection and pupil-context information, alongside historical trends and comparisons with schools serving similar communities.