Whitehall Academy
Whitehall Academy is an independent special school in Rochdale for boys and girls aged 5 to 11. It has 28 pupils and room for 45.
21 Whitehall Street, Rochdale, OL12 0LN01706 582495thewhitehallacademy.co.ukLeanne Doherty headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2025: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Rochdale council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
What parents say
From Ofsted's Parent View survey: 14 parents answered in the year to 6 April 2026. Parents choose whether to fill it in, and many only do so when an inspection is coming, so don't read too much into small differences. The England figures are the average for all schools with enough answers to publish.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Street Nursery School | Local authority nursery school | 120 m | 73 | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| Darul Madinah Rochdale Ltd | Independent | 280 m | 0 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Darul Madinah Rochdale Ltd | Independent | 280 m | 11 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Rochdale Islamic Academy | Independent | 520 m | 80 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Greenbank Primary School | Council | 530 m | 423 | Good 2022 | 66 | Compare |
| Rochdale Islamic Academy | Independent | 560 m | 75 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School | Academy | 620 m | 304 | Good 2023 | 53 | Compare |
| Rochdale Sixth Form College | Academy 16-19 converter | 730 m | 0 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Whitehall Academy a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Whitehall Academy yet.
How many pupils does Whitehall Academy have?
28 pupils aged 5 to 11 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 45 places, so it is 62% full.
What do parents say about Whitehall Academy?
100% of the 14 parents who answered Ofsted's Parent View survey would recommend it to other parents, and 100% say their child is happy there. Across England, 84% of parents would recommend their child's school.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- 21 Whitehall Street, Rochdale, OL12 0LN
- Telephone
- 01706 582495
- Website
- thewhitehallacademy.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Leanne Doherty
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 5-11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Ward
- Central Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 5 March 2025 (new provision)
- URN
- 151391 · LAESTAB 3546048
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.