SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy & Nursery
Primary · Academy converter · 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 Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy & Nursery is a primary school in Wolverhampton for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 27 November 2024. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2025 entry.
SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy & Nursery 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
- Reception 2026 had 19 first-choice applications for 28 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer, the lowest of 70 Wolverhampton primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
- The school has 18.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.1 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wolverhampton.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Hordern Close, Hordern Road, Newbridge, Wolverhampton, WV6 0HR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 225 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 27 November 2024
Strengths
- “This is a school that is at the heart of its community.”
- “Relationships between staff, pupils, parents and carers are very strong.”
- “Every pupil is cherished and supported well to ‘dream big’.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes, the activity choices teachers provide do not enable pupils to meet the ambitious aims of the curriculum because they do not build learning sequentially over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2025 (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) | 64% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 19 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.
- St Michael's CofE Primary Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Claregate Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Jude's Church of England Primary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dunstall Hill Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- West Park Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Christ Church (Church of England) Junior School 1.0 mi Not judged
- Palmers Cross Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published