Colton Hills Community School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–18 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
5.733 miles
Published by City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Colton Hills Community School is a secondary school in Wolverhampton for ages 11–18 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2023. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2025 entry.
Colton Hills Community 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 | 5.733 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
- The last child offered a Year 7 place for 2025 lived 5.733 miles away, the 4th longest of 13 Wolverhampton secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 last distance.
- The Year 7 last distance in 2025 was nearer the school than in 2024 and further than in 2022, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026 there were 117 first-choice applications for 237 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 120 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 25% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 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
- Jeremy Road, Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton, WV4 5DG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,163 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 15 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Colton Hills.”
- “They experience an inclusive, welcoming and aspirational environment in school.”
- “Pupils know that it is okay to be different, and they get on with each other well.”
To improve
- “However, plans for some of these pupils do not have sufficient detail.”
- “This means that pupils are not being supported to access the whole curriculum well enough.”
- “But for those at the earliest stages of reading, this help is not quick enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 December 2023 (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) | 25% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.2 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | D+ | B- |
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: 117 first-preference applications, 237 offers in total, 117 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.
- Highfields School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Collegiate Academy 2.1 mi Not judged
- Wolverhampton Girls' High School 2.2 mi Outstanding
- Thomas Telford University Technical College 2.2 mi Not judged
- St Edmund's Catholic Academy 2.3 mi Standards maintained
- Ormiston SWB Academy 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Smestow Academy 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published