Hale Barns - Education

Education

Further information: List of schools in Trafford

Because of its small size, Hale Barns has few schools. Amongst them are St Ambrose College which provides education for 11–18 year olds and Elmridge Primary.

Primary schools

Elmridge Primary School is a co-educational day school with 240 pupils as of the 2011/12 school year.

Secondary schools

St. Ambrose College is a Catholic Boy's Secondary School situated adjacent to Holy Angels Church and Hale Road, near the centre of Hale Barns village. The Christian Brothers came to England from Guernsey during the Second World War and remained to establish the college in 1946. The college celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2006. The school is a specialist Maths and Computing College.

In 2005 around 800 pupils attended the school. The College was awarded funding in the summer of 2006 for rebuilding on the current site as part of the Building Schools for the Future Programme. In 2006, 98.3% of pupils achieved at least 5 A*-C grades at GCSE compared to an average of 66.7% for all secondary schools in Trafford and a national UK average of 61.3%; 97.5% of its pupils gained at least 5 A*-C grades at GCSE including English and maths, ranking the school 4th out of Trafford's 19 secondary schools.

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