Academic Standards
Ofsted inspected the school's predecessor Greenwood Dale in September 2007 and awarded a rating of Outstanding, the highest available, commenting "Greenwood Dale is an outstanding school. It serves a community facing significant challenges and turns out young people who achieve highly and develop into well rounded, ambitious young people, equipped in all respects for a modern, diverse society. Seventeen years ago, going through the school was described by the current Chair of governors, then a new parent, as 'like walking through a war zone'. Since then the school has been transformed, in its appearance as well as its effectiveness."
The school was rated the sixth best in 2006, in the UK, for improving pupils. It sent its first pupil to Oxford University in 2005.
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