St Peter's Collegiate Academy

St Peter’s Collegiate Academy has improved since its previous inspection, and inspectors found secure provision across the main areas of school life. Pupils achieve well, behaviour and attendance are strong, and pupils speak positively about the school’s higher expectations and inclusive community. Safeguarding is effective. The school’s curriculum and teaching have been developed to be more consistent, and pupils generally learn and remember key knowledge. Reading support, personal development, SEND identification and sixth-form improvements are notable strengths, with the sixth form run jointly with another school in Three Spires Trust. Leaders, governors and trustees are well informed and staff feel consulted. The main areas for improvement concern assessment and SEND adaptation. Teachers do not always use assessment checks well enough to identify pupils who need extra support or to move pupils on to more complex work, and in some subjects SEND information is not used effectively to adapt learning. This means some pupils, including some with SEND, do not learn the curriculum as well as they could.

Strengths

• Leaders have created a coherent, well-sequenced curriculum that pupils learn and remember successfully.
• Teaching has become more consistent across and between subjects, helping pupils achieve well.
• Pupils’ reading is checked carefully on entry, with effective support for those who need to become fluent readers.
• Behaviour expectations are high, consistent and well understood, so lessons and social times are calm and orderly.
• Attendance is high overall, including for more vulnerable pupils, because of effective work with families.
• Pupils benefit from an extensive personal development offer, including clubs, visits, residentials and pupil leadership.
• SEND needs are identified with precision and staff receive clear information about them.
• Sixth-form provision has improved, including through joint provision with another trust school, better course guidance and rapid intervention.
• Governors and trustees are well informed, ambitious and offer supportive challenge.
• Staff feel well supported and consulted on changes and workload.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Pupils describe an inclusive community where all backgrounds are valued and welcome.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment is not used consistently enough to identify secure knowledge, gaps and readiness for more complex work.
• Some pupils who need additional help are not identified as well as they could be.
• In some subjects, teachers do not use SEND information effectively to adapt learning activities.
• As a result, some pupils with SEND do not learn the curriculum as well as they could.

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 St Peter's Collegiate Academy attended 93.3% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 17.4% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

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, 8.2% of pupils at St Peter's Collegiate Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). One pupil was 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 St Peter's Collegiate Academy had 16.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.5% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

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, 14.3% of pupils at St Peter's Collegiate Academy were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 1.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

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 secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 St Peter's Collegiate Academy received £7,855 and spent £8,100 for each of its 1,346 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £276,000 (£205 per pupil).

Across all 7 schools of Three Spires Trust, income was £7,801 and spending £8,016 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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St Peter's Collegiate Academy is part of Three Spires Trust, which runs 7 schools. The nearest others:

• St Michael's CofE Primary Academy Wolverhampton
• St Regis Church of England Academy Wolverhampton
• St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy Newcastle
• Hanley St Luke's Church of England Academy Stoke-On-Trent
• St Thomas' CofE Primary Academy Stoke-On-Trent
• The King's CofE Academy Stoke-On-Trent

What is St Peter's Collegiate Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Peter's Collegiate Academy is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was St Peter's Collegiate Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

St Peter's Collegiate Academy was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does St Peter's Collegiate Academy have?

St Peter's Collegiate Academy has 1,329 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Peter's Collegiate Academy cover?

St Peter's Collegiate Academy for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are St Peter's Collegiate Academy's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 48.2, and 46% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is St Peter's Collegiate Academy?

St Peter's Collegiate Academy is at Compton Park, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 9DU.