Schools in Dukinfield
Dukinfield has 12 schools including 6 primaries and 2 secondaries, all within Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council's co-ordinated admissions area in Greater Manchester. Nine of the 12 schools operate as academies — a high proportion for a town of this size — meaning each has its own oversubscription criteria, though most still use a distance-based tiebreaker after sibling and faith priority.
Capacity pressure is significant: 6 of the 10 schools with published data are at or above roll, giving Dukinfield one of the higher oversubscription rates in Tameside. Three schools have a religious character, mainly Catholic, drawing from a wider parish catchment than the immediate neighbourhood. Tameside publishes its co-ordinated primary offer on 16 April and secondary offer on 1 March, with last-distance-offered data available in the council's admissions booklet each September.
School demand in Dukinfield
Across the 10 schools in Dukinfield with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 95%. 6 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
3 schools in Dukinfield have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
9 of the schools in Dukinfield are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Tameside, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
3 of the schools in Dukinfield have a current Ofsted rating, of which 1 is rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Dukinfield: 3 oversubscribed (6)
Broadbent Fold Primary School and Nursery
Primary · Community school
Dukinfield · SK16 5DP
St John's CofE Primary School, Dukinfield
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
Dukinfield · SK16 5JA
Yew Tree Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Dukinfield · SK16 5BJ
Lyndhurst Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Dukinfield · SK16 4JS
St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Dukinfield · SK16 5LB
Ravensfield Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Dukinfield · SK16 4JG
Secondary Schools in Dukinfield (2)
Other Schools in Dukinfield (4)
Cromwell High School
Not applicable · Academy special converter
Dukinfield · SK16 5BJ
Tameside Alternative Provision Academy
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision converter
Dukinfield · SK16 4UJ
Oakdale School
Not applicable · Academy special converter
Dukinfield · SK16 5LD
Stansfield House
Not applicable · Other independent special school
Dukinfield · SK16 4HG
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Dukinfield are set by Tameside and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.