Recent Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (
Ofsted) inspections who have included:
2014 Ofsted Inspection Ofsted rated the school as being inadequate in several areas, including leadership and management and quality of teaching, during a 2014 inspection. In the same academic year, school received negative reviews on Parent View, which is operated by Ofsted, and 68% of parents said they did not trust the management of the school. As a consequence, the school is inspected once every three months. A 2015 inspection, whilst accepting there was "a long way to go", showed the school was making reasonable progress towards the removal of special measures, and the school's action plan was now fit for purpose.
2020 Ofsted Inspection Six years later, the school was subjected to a full inspection. The inspectors said that: "The people who are responsible for this school have failed its pupils for far too long.Leaders have not ensured that the school is a safe and happy place in which pupils can flourish" The school has gained the sobriquet 'The Forgotten School' and had ten head-teachers in eleven years. The current headteacher Dan Wright is in negotiations to join the Emmaus Trust, a potential Catholic
multi-academy trust (CMAT) proposed for the southern part of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford. ==Notable alumni==