Wednesfield Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
4.489 miles
Published by City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wednesfield Academy is a secondary school in Wolverhampton for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2025 entry.
Wednesfield 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2025 | 4.489 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
- For Year 7 in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 4.489 miles from the school, the 6th longest of 13 Wolverhampton secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2025 Year 7 last distance was further than in 2024 and nearer than in 2022, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Year 7 in 2026 had 128 first-choice applications for 200 offers: 0.6 first choices per offer, the 5th lowest of 18 Wolverhampton secondary schools.
- In 2024/25, 42% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 2nd highest 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
- Lichfield Road, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, WV11 3ES
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,025 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 45% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “Wednesfield Academy is a highly inclusive school where everyone is valued and where expectations for pupils to achieve well are high.”
- “As a result, the majority of pupils work hard and achieve well.”
- “Pupils and staff embody the school’s values of respect, resilience and pride.”
To improve
- “However, this ambitious and well-sequenced curriculum has not yet led to consistently improving outcomes, in all subjects, by the end of key stage 4.”
- “While some students achieve well, the school knows which areas of the curriculum continue to need further development.”
- “However, some teachers do not always check pupils’ understanding well enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 March 2025 (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) | 42% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 44.9 | 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: 128 first-preference applications, 200 offers in total, 128 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.
- Coppice Performing Arts School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Heath Park 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Matthias School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy 1.6 mi School remains Good
- Moreton School 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Moseley Park 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thomas Telford University Technical College 2.2 mi Not judged
- Ormiston SWB Academy 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published