Northwood Park Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Northwood Park Primary School is a primary school in Wolverhampton for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 June 2023. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Northwood Park Primary 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| 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, 33% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Among 8 schools, this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Wolverhampton that have results, its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths expected-standard figure was the lowest.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 37 of the 38 other Wolverhampton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 51 first-choice applications for 51 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 19th highest of 70 Wolverhampton primary schools.
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
- Collingwood Road, Bushbury, Wolverhampton, WV10 8DS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 609 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 51.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this inclusive, warm school, where leaders and teachers care deeply about its pupils.”
- “Pupils feel safe in school because of this.”
- “The trust’s ‘Shine’ values of strive, harmony, inspire, nurture, and excel are lived out each day.”
To improve
- “However, for some pupils the ambition is too high.”
- “The precise, small steps some pupils need to secure in order to make progress have not been identified.”
- “However, some of these pupils do not make rapid enough progress to catch up with their peers.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 August 2023 (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) | 33% | 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: 51 first-preference applications, 51 offers in total, 51 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.
- Bushbury Hill Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Elston Hall Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Whitgreave Primary School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Fallings Park Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Berrybrook Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rakegate Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bushbury Lane Academy 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published