Ridgewood High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Stourbridge, Dudley
Last distance offered · Year 7 2024
Every applicant was offered a place
From Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 1 March 2024
2023 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ridgewood High School is a secondary school in Stourbridge, Dudley for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 July 2023. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2024 entry.
Ridgewood High 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 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 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 2026, there were 111 first-choice applications for 118 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 8th highest of 19 Dudley secondary schools.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 107 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 42% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 46 (England 46).
- The school has 19.1 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Dudley is 16.5.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Dudley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Park Road West, Wollaston, Stourbridge, DY8 3NQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 641 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 July 2023
Strengths
- “Ridgewood is a caring, inclusive school where leaders strive to provide the best for their pupils.”
- “Leaders in the school have introduced a number of changes to improve provision, particularly with regard to the curriculum and behaviour.”
- “These are having a positive impact.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects this lacks precision, particularly when the key knowledge pupils need to know is less clearly identified.”
- “This means that some pupils’ misconceptions are left unaddressed, and they are not ready to move on to more challenging work.”
- “Leaders have not yet ensured that pupils’ misconceptions are consistently identified and addressed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 September 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) | 42% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46 | 46 |
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: 111 first-preference applications, 118 offers in total, 107 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 Dudley.
- Old Swinford Hospital 1.3 mi School remains Good
- Redhill School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The Wordsley School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Pedmore High School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Crestwood School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thorns Collegiate Academy 2.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Summerhill School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingswinford Academy 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published