Coppice Performing Arts School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
0.725 miles
Published by City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Coppice Performing Arts School is a secondary school in Wolverhampton for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2022. Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2025 entry.
Coppice Performing Arts 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 2025 | 0.725 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 2025 the last child offered a place lived 0.725 miles away, the shortest of 13 Wolverhampton secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 last distance.
- Year 7 2026 drew 234 first-choice applications for 175 offers; 159 offers went to first-choice families, and 75 first-choice families (32%) were not offered a place.
- 262 of the 486 Year 7 2026 applications (54%) came from families living outside Wolverhampton, and 78 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 34% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%); the A level average grade was C- (England B-).
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
- Ecclestone Road, Wolverhampton, WV11 2QE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 989 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 October 2022
Strengths
- “Coppice Performing Arts School is a welcoming and thriving school.”
- “The warm, friendly and respectful school culture greets you as soon as you arrive.”
- “Pupils are happy at this school.”
To improve
- “Yet, in science there is still further work to do to bring the quality of learning in line with other subjects.”
- “While the school provides pupils with opportunities to read frequently, developments in the use of phonics to teach reading are at an early stage.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 December 2022 (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) | 34% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 43.8 | 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: 234 first-preference applications, 175 offers in total, 159 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.
- Wednesfield Academy 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Heath Park 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Moreton School 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Matthias School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy 2.3 mi School remains Good
- Moseley Park 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thomas Telford University Technical College 3.1 mi Not judged
- Ormiston NEW Academy 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published