Long Knowle Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Long Knowle Primary School is a primary school in Wolverhampton for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 29 January 2025. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Long Knowle 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 there were 17 first-choice applications for 20 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 37 of the 38 other Wolverhampton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- 42% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 38.1% 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
- Blackwood Avenue, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, WV11 1EB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 212 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 29 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils say ‘everyone is included’ at Long Knowle Primary School.”
- “The school is ambitious for all its pupils.”
- “Pupils achieve well, particularly in reading.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, some aspects of the knowledge and skills pupils need to know are unclear.”
- “This is because the order of learning is not yet clearly set out in these aspects.”
- “However, sometimes this information is not consistently used well to plan next steps in pupils’ learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 March 2025 (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) | 73% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 17 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.
- Wood End Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- D'Eyncourt Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wodensfield Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Thomas' Church of England Primary Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Berrybrook Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fallings Park Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Edward the Elder Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published