Ormiston NEW Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–19 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
6.148 miles
Published by City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ormiston NEW Academy is a secondary school in Wolverhampton for ages 11–19 (academy sponsor led). Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2025 entry.
Ormiston NEW 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 | 6.148 mi |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 31% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 35.7 (England 46).
- Year 7 2025's last distance offered, 6.148 miles, was further than in 2024 and the 3rd longest of 13 Wolverhampton secondary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 150 first-choice applications for 211 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 61 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Free school meals eligibility is 59.7%, against a middle figure of 55.8% across 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
- Marsh Lane, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, WV10 6SE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,094 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 59.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 28 April 2026
Strengths
- “Staff and pupils agree that Ormiston New Academy is a special place to go to school.”
- “Pupils greatly appreciate how leaders and staff listen to them and consult them before any changes happen.”
- “Pupils feel very well cared for.”
To improve
- “This positive progress is not always reflected by the published information from national tests.”
- “On a few occasions in a very small number of subjects, gaps in pupils' knowledge are not addressed as quickly as in other subjects.”
- “When this happens, pupils' learning is hindered.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 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) | 31% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 35.7 | 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: 150 first-preference applications, 211 offers in total, 150 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.
- Aldersley High School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Moreton School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good
- Thomas Telford University Technical College 2.3 mi Not judged
- Heath Park 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wolverhampton Girls' High School 2.3 mi Outstanding
- St Edmund's Catholic Academy 2.5 mi Standards maintained
- St Regis Church of England Academy 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade