Ahavas Torah Boys Academy is a Jewish faith school for boys aged 11 to 16 years located in Salford. It occupies the upper two floors of a large Victorian house, the lower part of which is occupied by Tashbar Crèche, which is separately registered and not linked to the school. The school was opened in response to the increasing demand for school places in the Orthodox Jewish communities of North Manchester, Salford and Prestwich and is registered for 47 pupils. There is a class in each of Years 7 to 10. Pupils take GCSEs in mathematics and English Inspection report: Ahavas Torah Boys Academy, 5–7 June 2018 Page 8 of 11 language at the end of Year 10. No pupils have an education, health and care plan. The school aims to ‘provide an excellent secular education which is guided by and also gives over the principles of orthodox Judaism’ and to ‘build an atmosphere of happiness and achievement whilst instilling within pupils a deep and passionate love for, and understanding of, their own religion, coupled with an uncompromising respect for other religions and lifestyles different to their own’. The school uses no alternative provision for pupils. The majority of the school day is devoted to kodesh, with chol taught mainly in the afternoon. The school is open six days per week. The school has appointed a full-time headteacher since the previous inspection. There is also a new chair of the board of directors of the company that forms the proprietorial body.