Rakegate Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2023 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rakegate Primary School is a primary school in Wolverhampton for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 June 2023. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2025 entry.
Rakegate Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | Not published |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, 56 first-choice applications for 59 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 41% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 24 pupils per teacher, against 20.4 as the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wolverhampton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wolverhampton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Rakegate Close, Wolverhampton, WV10 6US
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 472 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 June 2023
Strengths
- “Staff listen to pupils at Rakegate Primary.”
- “They pay attention to any worries they might have and check that they are safe.”
- “Staff also ask pupils for their ideas about how to improve the school.”
To improve
- “Occasionally, bullying occurs.”
- “However, in a few subjects, the curriculum could be even better.”
- “However, in a few subjects, the curriculum and assessment are not as well developed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 41% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 56 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 56 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Wolverhampton.
- St Paul's Church of England Aided Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Elston Hall Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Dovecotes Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bushbury Lane Academy 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Northwood Park Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Whitgreave Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Claregate Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published