The Blue Coat School has a proud history and heritage within the Oldham area.

The foundation stone for the school was laid in 1829 and first opened in 1834. The Blue Coat School continues to serve the wider parish, attracting students from all over the Greater Manchester area and beyond helping young people become everything they can be and everything they are meant to be.

From these humble beginnings, the Blue Coat School has become one of the biggest and most successful schools in the country. The school has a national reputation for high quality teaching and learning, pastoral care, consistently excellent examination results and outstanding progress. Our most recent OFSTED re-inspection in December 2022 saw the school maintain it’s outstanding status in all categories.

Blue Coat is grounded in tradition and history, and is evolving and forward looking. Our historic campus has been restored and developed extensively over the years; our students enjoy picnic lunches in front of a Grade II listed building but their learning takes place in superb 21st century classrooms, laboratories and studios.

Blue Coat is dedicated to serving young people, to enable them to become everything they can be and everything that they are meant to be. We are a Church of England school that welcomes members of other Christian denominations, and of other faiths.

Mission, Vision and Values

The Blue Coat School mission is that we are here to serve our young people, to ensure that they become everything they can be and everything they are meant to be. We want our young people to experience a distinctively Christian education. At a personal and human level, we try to discern what is right: what would God want?

The fulfilment of our mission is rooted in our core values of Faith, Vision and Nurture.