Claregate Primary School

Claregate Primary School is performing well in several areas, with a strong focus on safeguarding and a calm, orderly environment that supports positive behavior among pupils. The leadership team, newly appointed, is actively driving improvements and fostering an inclusive culture that ensures all pupils feel valued. Attendance rates are improving, and the school is addressing attendance challenges effectively through collaboration with families and external agencies. However, some concerns arise regarding the achievement of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, as gaps in knowledge and variable progress have been noted. The school is aware of areas for development and is implementing plans for improvement.

Strengths

• Strong leadership driving improvement initiatives.
• Positive, inclusive culture where pupils feel safe and valued.
• Effective safeguarding measures in place.
• Pupils exhibit respectful behavior and work well together.
• Broad curriculum with extracurricular opportunities enhancing pupil development.

Areas for Improvement

• Achievement for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities is variable.
• Some gaps in knowledge among pupils are not identified or addressed quickly enough.
• Inconsistent quality of phonics teaching affecting early reading skills.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Claregate Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.0% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.9% of pupils at Claregate Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Claregate Primary School had 20.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.3% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 13.3% of pupils at Claregate Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Claregate Primary School received £7,121 and spent £7,314 for each of its 384 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £14,000 (-£36 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

• Primary Schools
• Secondary Schools

All schools in Wolverhampton · Wolverhampton local authority: places and applications

What is Claregate Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Claregate Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Claregate Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Claregate Primary School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Claregate Primary School have?

Claregate Primary School has 390 pupils on roll.

What age range does Claregate Primary School cover?

Claregate Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Claregate Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Claregate Primary School?

Claregate Primary School is at Chester Avenue, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 9JU.