[1] The school is named after William Stanier, a former railway engineer, and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

[5] New school buildings were then designed by Aedas and constructed by Willmott Dixon from 2010.

[6] Previously a community school administered by Cheshire East Council,[7] in September 2013 Sir William Stanier School converted to academy status.

In June 2023, the school was rumoured, with documents sent out to pupils and parents, to be renaming.

Sir William Stanier School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.