Perton First School

Primary · Community school · Ages 2–9 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2025

Not published

From Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025

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Perton First School is a primary school in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire for ages 2–9 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 15 February 2023. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.

Perton First 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

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

Reception 2026 drew 38 first-choice applications for 39 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
9.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.
Its latest Ofsted outcome, in February 2023, was School remains Good; of the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire, 5 are Good and 3 have no current grade.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Manston Drive, Perton, Wolverhampton, WV6 7LX
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–9
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 278 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 9.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 23.2

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 15 February 2023

Strengths

“This is a school that feels like a family.”
“Pupils enjoy coming to school and learning new things.”
“They greet visitors with a smile and display good manners.”

To improve

“However, leaders know that there is more to do to enhance the delivery of the curriculum in a few subjects.”
“In these subjects, teachers’ knowledge and expertise are not fully secure and the curriculum is not delivered as effectively as it could be.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 38 first-preference applications, 39 offers in total, 38 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 Staffordshire.

Perton Primary Academy 0.3 mi Good
Birches First School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
Bhylls Acre Primary School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Christopher's Catholic Primary Academy 2.0 mi Standards maintained
Lane Green First School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
St Nicholas Church of England First School 2.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
St Chad's CofE (VC) First School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade
All Saints' CofE Primary School 3.9 mi Good Last distance published