Ormiston SWB Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–19 · Bilston, Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
1.47 miles
Published by City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ormiston SWB Academy is a secondary school in Bilston, Wolverhampton for ages 11–19 (academy sponsor led). Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2025 entry.
Ormiston SWB 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 | 1.47 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
- The last child offered a 2025 Year 7 place lived 1.47 miles away, the 6th shortest of 13 Wolverhampton secondary schools with a published last distance (middle 2.59 miles).
- For Year 7 2026 there were 240 first-choice applications for 225 offers; 206 offers went to first-choice families, and 34 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 121 of the 452 applications (27%) for Year 7 2026 came from families living outside Wolverhampton, and 62 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 38% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 4th 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
- Dudley Street, Bilston, WV14 0LN
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 54.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 21 April 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish in this vibrant school.”
- “High aspirations and high ambition are woven into the school's fabric.”
- “Former pupils' successes are celebrated around the building, alongside the successes of other notable people.”
To improve
- “However, a few pupils would benefit from more precise strategies to help them to overcome their specific barriers to learning.”
- “However, teachers do not always identify gaps and barriers in pupils' learning precisely enough, and so gaps in some pupils' knowledge are able to persist.”
- “However, for a very few pupils who have highly individual barriers to their learning, teachers' adaptations are not precise enough to give them the support that they need.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 2026 (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) | 38% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42 | 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: 240 first-preference applications, 225 offers in total, 206 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.
- The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Moseley Park 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Matthias School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Colton Hills Community School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thomas Telford University Technical College 2.7 mi Not judged
- Heath Park 2.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wednesfield Academy 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Coppice Performing Arts School 3.6 mi Good Last distance published