SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2023 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy is a primary school in Wolverhampton for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 April 2024. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2025 entry.
SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy 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 |
| 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, 79% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wolverhampton.
- At the higher standard in 2024/25, the figure was 29% of pupils (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 saw 27 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 26 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (4%) was not offered a place.
- Of its pupils, 43.7% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 51.3% 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
- Caledonia Road, Wolverhampton, WV2 1HZ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 229 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 43.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils wholeheartedly live by the school rules of ‘be respectful, be safe, be ready to learn’.”
- “They enjoy attending school and have positive attitudes to their learning.”
- “There are caring relationships between pupils and staff.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, staff have not had appropriate training to help them identify the core knowledge that pupils need to know and remember and why pupils need to learn it.”
- “This means that in some subjects, some pupils do not progress as well as they could.”
- “However, in some subjects, some staff do not adapt the lessons to support the differing abilities of pupils in their class.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 June 2024 (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) | 79% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 26 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.
- Grove Primary Academy 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Luke's Church of England Aided Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Graiseley Primary School 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eastfield Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parkfield Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton 0.9 mi Improved significantly Last distance published