Rayner Stephens is a warm and caring community for all students. We celebrate our students' achievements and believe strongly in providing an environment where all our young people are able to thrive.

We are an inclusive 11-16 school, part of the family of schools that make up the Stamford Park Trust. Our values based, standards driven approach is underpinned by or core belief of ‘Excellence and Ambition for all’, which is promoted through our core values of Respect, Resilience and Aspiration.

We nurture and inspire our students, ensuring we develop curious minds and individual talents. Throughout school life we aim to create opportunities, broaden horizons and introduce challenges to support your child’s development. Our staff are committed to ensure that students achieve their full potential regardless of their starting points.

Being part of Stamford Park Trust gives us the opportunity to do things differently, to develop and form collaborative approaches to teaching and learning to provide an outstanding quality of education to all students across the Trust.

A central aspect of the Trusts work is to ensure that all our students have access to the best facilities for teaching and learning.

Stamford Park Trust, in collaboration with Tameside Council, is investing over £1.5 million to ensure students at Rayner Stephens have access the best facilities, to inspire their love of learning and interests outside of the curriculum.

It is an exciting time to join Rayner Stephens High School. Progress is happening across the whole school with a clear focus on positive praise and recognition, excellent behaviour for learning, investment in facilities, engaging teaching and an extensive and exciting enrichment and aspiration offers for students.

If you’d like to find out more about Rayner Stephens and come on our journey with us, join us for our open evening on 29^th September 4:30-8:30pm. There is free family dining available throughout the evening, so please bring along the whole family for a bite to eat!