Good Manchester Secondaries (not grammar) for academic EAL child?

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Hi everyone! I'm posting on behalf of a friend, hoping for a bit of advice. She is looking for a good, state-run, non-selective school in Manchester.

Background:
Spanish friend is moving to Manchester with her 12 year old daughter. The family doesn't know Manchester and will pick an area to live based on where the good schools are. I'm not sure what their budget is, but I don't think it's huge, mum is a nurse, dad a teacher.
So, I think private schools and super expensive catchment areas are unlikely to work for them. Grammar schools will be difficult because the daughter won't have taken or been prepared for the 11+. She has a very good standard of English, but is EAL nonetheless. She is also a very academic child.

Any recommendations gratefully received. Thanks!

I just spoke to her, she will be working in Altringham area, so that's a good starting point..

Altrincham area very expensive to live but has good non-selective secondary schools in Wellington and Altrincham College of Arts.

Thanks Wid :-)

I would choose Wellington over ACA. Wellington has a very small catchment area so your friend needs to aware of this if she does choose this school.

Altrincham has good schools but Wellington is over subscribed something like 5 to 1. So your friend needs to live within about a mile (as the crow flies) to get a place.

Altrincham comes within Trafford LA - if she has a look on the Trafford education website, there is a booklet called Transition to Secondary School (or something like that). It tells you how far away from the school they offered places / how oversubscribed it was/ how far they got down their oversubscription criteria. Things will change year on year but a good starting point.

Interested in this. How about flixton girls? Its in flixton / urmston / davyhulme catchment

I live in flixton! Excellent schools here, especially for girls! Flixton girls school had fantastic GCSE results this year!

I live on the boarder of Umston and Stretford. This year, a lot of girls from my son's school went to Flixton girls.