The Polesworth School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Tamworth, Warwickshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
8.195 miles
Published by Warwickshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Polesworth School is a secondary school in Tamworth, Warwickshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 February 2023. Warwickshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2017 to 2026 entry.
The Polesworth 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 2026 | 8.195 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 35% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%); the A level average grade was C (England B-).
- The last child offered a Year 7 place for 2026 lived 8.195 miles away, the 10th longest of 32 Warwickshire secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- Year 7 last distances swung sharply between some years; the 2026 one was further out than in 2025 or 2017, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 8 years.
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 238 first-choice applications for 243 offers; 237 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warwickshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Dordon Road, Dordon, Tamworth, B78 1QT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Warwickshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,459 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 February 2023
Strengths
- “The Polesworth School is a community school where pupils prosper.”
- “Pupils have a great sense of pride in belonging to this inclusive school.”
- “Staff know their pupils well and this enables positive relationships to thrive.”
To improve
- “However, at times, teachers do not always check that learning is clearly understood before moving on.”
- “Despite this, getting some pupils to attend school is a challenge.”
- “However, leaders recognise more work needs to be done to identify what pupils’ individual reading needs are and to ensure that the resulting interventions precisely meet these needs.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 March 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) | 35% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.7 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C | 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: 238 first-preference applications, 243 offers in total, 237 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 Warwickshire.
- Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy 4.0 mi Good Last distance published
- The Queen Elizabeth Academy 4.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hartshill Academy 6.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Nuneaton Academy 8.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Higham Lane North Academy 8.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Sixth Form College 8.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Higham Lane School 8.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Etone College 9.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
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