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Woodthorne Primary School

Primary Ages 3-11 396 pupils Wolverhampton
Ofsted: Good
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Woodthorne Primary School is an academy converter in Wolverhampton for pupils aged 3 to 11. It has 396 pupils on roll. The latest Ofsted rating for Woodthorne Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2018 of its predecessor, Woodthorne Primary School. In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Ofsted inspection: March 2023. KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 3-11
Religion Does not apply
Address Woodthorne Road South
Tettenhall
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV6 8XL
Phone 01902921160
Reference Number 146194

General Makeup

Number of pupils 396
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 52.53%
Girls: 47.47%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 25%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 16.2%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 26.1
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 22.8
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 28.8

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 22 22 44
2 30 27 57
3 31 27 58
4 33 24 57
5 27 31 58
6 30 27 57

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 35.4%
Indian 19.7%
Asian, Other 9.1%
White & Asian 6.8%
White, Other 5.3%
Pakistani 5.3%
White & Black (Caribbean) 4.5%
Mixed, Other 4.3%
Unclassified 2%
African 2%
White & Black (African) 1.3%
Caribbean 0.8%

This school has not been graded since it changed URN, usually on converting to an academy. The rating shown is from its predecessor, Woodthorne Primary School, inspected in January 2018.

Overall Ofsted Rating Good
Last Report Date 24 Jan 2023 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
24 Jan 2023 School inspection
12 Sep 2018 Academy conversion letter
23 Jan 2018 Short inspection
Previously as Woodthorne Primary School
19 Jun 2014 Full inspection:
18 Dec 2012 Monitoring visit
25 Oct 2012 Full inspection:
07 Jan 2011 Interim assessment
27 Feb 2008 Full inspection:
06 May 2003 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 69%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 13%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 107
Maths 107

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 1.9
Writing 1.1
Maths 1.9

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Average Scaled Score

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 37 6
Third Preference 17 0
From another Local Authority 11 2

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Woodthorne Primary School had 388 pupils for 420 places. 32 places (7.6%) were unfilled.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Primary Planning Area 4” planning area

Wolverhampton counted 1,040 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 1,172 in 2029–30, up 13%.

201920212022202320242025
Places 390420420420420420
Pupils 398394386405407388
Unfilled 0.0%6.2%8.1%3.6%3.1%7.6%

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 Woodthorne Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 2.8%3.7%4.1%4.4%3.9%3.7%
Unauthorised absence 1.1%1.4%1.6%1.9%1.3%1.1%
Severely absent pupils 0.6%1.1%0.3%2.5%1.9%1.4%

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, 1.2% of pupils at Woodthorne Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

2019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 0.00.00.00.00.70.92.1
Permanent exclusions 0000001

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 Woodthorne Primary School had 22.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 28.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

20192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 15.419.519.618.916.414.711.712.4
Teachers who left state teaching 36.0%13.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%5.3%14.4%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 53.8%–60.0%83.3%58.8%60.0%72.7%–
Sick days per teacher 3.6–2.36.13.15.915.7–

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, 18.2% of pupils at Woodthorne Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Moderate learning difficulty 31 3
Social, emotional and mental health 21 0
Speech, language and communication needs 14 1
Autistic spectrum disorder 1 6
Specific learning difficulty 3 0
Physical disability 1 1
Down's syndrome 0 1
Hearing impairment 1 0
Other difficulty or disability 0 1

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 Woodthorne Primary School received £6,262 and spent £6,360 for each of its 423 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £40,000 (£95 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of Perry Hall Multi-Academy Trust, income was £7,200 and spending £6,904 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue reserve £94,000£97,000£124,000£138,000£147,000£108,000£40,000
per pupil £232£227£291£333£349£250£95
In-year balance £40,000-£25,000-£1,000£116,000-£11,000-£69,000-£42,000
per pupil £99-£59-£2£279-£25-£160-£99

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.

Name Distance
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0.15 miles
Christ Church (Church of England) Junior School
Woodcote Road, Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 8LG
0.44 miles
Perton Primary Academy
Sandown Drive, Perton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 7PS
0.51 miles
Christ Church (Church of England) Infant and Nursery School
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0.51 miles
Perton First School
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0.75 miles
St Michael's CofE Primary Academy
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1.1 miles
Newbridge Preparatory School
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1.13 miles
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1.45 miles
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1.48 miles
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1.5 miles
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1.51 miles
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1.53 miles
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Birches First School
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St Michael's Catholic Primary Academy and Nursery
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1.87 miles
St Christopher's Catholic Primary Academy
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1.92 miles
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Name Distance
St Regis Church of England Academy
Regis Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 8XG
0.15 miles
Tettenhall Wood School
Regis Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 8XF
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Tettenhall College Incorporated
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1.09 miles
Aurora Cedars School
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1.11 miles
Smestow Academy
Windmill Crescent, Wolverhampton, WV3 8HU
1.11 miles
St Edmund's Catholic Academy
Compton Park, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 9DU
1.14 miles
St Peter's Collegiate Academy
Compton Park, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 9DU
1.2 miles
Wolverhampton Girls' High School
Tettenhall Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 0BY
1.36 miles
Pine Green Academy
Valley Park Campus, Cromer Gardens, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 0UB
1.61 miles
Aldersley High School
Barnhurst Lane, Codsall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV8 1RT
1.74 miles
Wolverhampton Grammar School
Compton Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 9RB
1.76 miles
Codsall Community High School
Elliotts Lane, Codsall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, WV8 1PQ
1.98 miles
Penn Fields School
Boundary Way, Penn, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV4 4NT
2.19 miles
Park Lodge School
Park Lodge, 26 Park Avenue, Wolverhampton, WV1 4AH
2.22 miles
Highfields School
Boundary Way, Penn, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV4 4NT
2.22 miles
Kingsley Academy
2 Upper Zoar Street, Wolverhampton, WV3 0LA
2.39 miles
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2.55 miles
The Royal School, Wolverhampton
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2.68 miles
Ormiston NEW Academy
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2.72 miles

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Woodthorne Primary School is part of Perry Hall Multi-Academy Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

What is Woodthorne Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Woodthorne Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2018 of its predecessor, Woodthorne Primary School.

When was Woodthorne Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Woodthorne Primary School was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does Woodthorne Primary School have?

Woodthorne Primary School has 396 pupils on roll.

What age range does Woodthorne Primary School cover?

Woodthorne Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

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

Where is Woodthorne Primary School?

Woodthorne Primary School is at Woodthorne Road South, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 8XL.

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