St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy
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 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy is a primary school in Wolverhampton for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 January 2023. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2025 entry.
St Mary'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, 78% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 19% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 78% was the 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Wolverhampton that have results.
- Reception 2026 drew 53 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 36% of pupils; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wolverhampton is 57.4%.
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
- Cannock Road, Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, WV10 8PG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 472 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 January 2023
Strengths
- “The school’s values of ‘believe, achieve, aspire’ permeate throughout the school.”
- “Leaders’ aspirations for pupils are without limits.”
- “This is a school that pupils and staff are rightly proud of.”
To improve
- “This is evident in reading and mathematics but is not consistent in a small number of subjects.”
- “Some teachers’ subject knowledge is not as strong as is needed to implement the curriculum as leaders intend.”
- “This means that in a small number of subjects, pupils do not develop a deep enough understanding of important knowledge needed for future learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 March 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) | 78% | 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: 53 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 53 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.
- Fallings Park Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- D'Eyncourt Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wodensfield Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whitgreave Primary School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Long Knowle Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bushbury Hill Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Trinity CofE Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Berrybrook Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published