St Matthias School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–19 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
2.594 miles
Published by City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Matthias School is a secondary school in Wolverhampton for ages 11–19 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 3 December 2024. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2025 entry.
St Matthias 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2025 | 2.594 mi |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2025, the last child offered a place lived 2.594 miles away, the 7th longest of 13 Wolverhampton secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 last distance.
- That Year 7 2025 distance was nearer the school than in 2024 and about the same as in 2022, and last distances swung sharply between some years.
- Year 7 2026 entry had 112 first-choice applications for 173 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 61 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 32% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Deans Road, Wolverhampton, WV1 2BH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 805 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 64.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 10.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 3 December 2024
Strengths
- “‘Everyone belongs here’ is evident in all aspects of school life.”
- “Staff insist that all pupils should be treated with respect and kindness.”
- “They are passionate about working with pupils and their families to ensure that pupils are ready to learn.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, teaching does not enable all pupils to learn and remember the planned curriculum well enough.”
- “As a result, there is some variation in pupils’ achievement in different subjects.”
- “However, too many pupils do not stay in sustained education or training when they leave school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 32% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 40.6 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 112 first-preference applications, 173 offers in total, 112 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Wolverhampton.
- Moseley Park 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Heath Park 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wednesfield Academy 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thomas Telford University Technical College 1.4 mi Not judged
- The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ormiston SWB Academy 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy 2.0 mi School remains Good
- Coppice Performing Arts School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published