Woden Primary School

Woden Primary School is performing strongly overall. Behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision are all outstanding, while the quality of education is good. Pupils are respectful, safe and engaged in learning, and they benefit from a broad curriculum, extensive enrichment and a strong sense of pupil voice. The school serves a diverse community and supports increasing numbers of pupils with SEND well. Language and reading are notable strengths from the early years onward, with pupils developing ambitious vocabulary and receiving timely support when needed. Recent changes to the English and mathematics curriculum are helping more pupils meet expected standards. Pastoral support and counselling are also strong and make a positive difference to pupils. The main area for improvement is accuracy in pupils’ written work. Staff do not always address errors in letter formation, handwriting and spelling, so some pupils have persistent gaps in these foundational skills. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains part of The Central Learning Partnership Trust; safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Strengths

• Outstanding behaviour and attitudes, with pupils consistently respectful and safe
• Outstanding personal development supported by rich enrichment and pupil voice
• Outstanding leadership and management with skilful trust oversight
• Outstanding early years provision with skilled staff and well-thought-out routines
• Effective curriculum designed carefully for a diverse intake and pupils with SEND
• Strong early language and reading development across the school
• Impressive use of ambitious vocabulary and strong reading-writing links
• Effective pastoral support and counselling that helps pupils feel secure
• Pupils with SEND are supported extremely well to access the full curriculum
• Pupils take on meaningful roles and responsibilities and value them
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Staff do not always address pupils’ errors in written work
• Some pupils have persistent gaps in foundational handwriting and spelling knowledge
• Letter formation and spelling accuracy need to improve

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 Woden Primary School attended 94.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.4% 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, 0.4% of pupils at Woden 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 Woden Primary School had 18.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 2.9% 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, 11.2% of pupils at Woden Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.9% 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 2024–25 Woden Primary School received £6,707 and spent £7,340 for each of its 439 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,704,000 (£3,881 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of Central Learning Partnership Trust, income was £11,097 and spending £11,085 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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Woden Primary School is part of Central Learning Partnership Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Heath Park Wolverhampton
• Broadmeadow Special School Wolverhampton
• D'Eyncourt Primary School Wolverhampton
• Westcroft School Wolverhampton
• Moseley Park Bilston
• Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre Wolverhampton
• Coppice Performing Arts School Wolverhampton
• Pitcheroak School Redditch
• Kingfisher School Redditch
• Riversides School Worcester

What is Woden Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Woden Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Woden Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Woden Primary School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Woden Primary School have?

Woden Primary School has 448 pupils on roll.

What age range does Woden Primary School cover?

Woden Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 55% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Woden Primary School?

Woden Primary School is at Springfield Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV10 0LH.