St Paul's CofE First School

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–9 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2024

7.81 miles

Furthest distance (miles): "7.81" · Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2024

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St Paul's CofE First School is a primary school in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire for ages 3–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2024. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 entry.

St Paul's CofE First 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
Reception 2024	7.81 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

The last child offered a Reception place in 2024 lived 7.81 miles away, the longest of 17 Staffordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2024 last distance.
For Reception 2026 there were 25 first-choice applications for 25 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
The school has 19.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 25.1 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.
10.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: School Lane, Coven, Wolverhampton, WV9 5AD
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–9
Religious character: Church of England
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 139 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 10.1% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 19.9

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 7 February 2024

Strengths

“St Paul’s CofE First School provides pupils with a good quality of education.”
“It also teaches pupils to be kind, caring and supportive to others.”
“The school’s CARE values of community, aspiration, respect and endurance show in the ambitions that staff set for pupils.”

To improve

“Currently, the school is working to improve the quality of pupils’ writing, which is not as strong as it could be.”
“Understandably, teachers who have recently taken on new subject leadership posts are still getting to grips with these roles.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 25 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 25 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 Staffordshire.

St Mary and St Chad CofE First School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Featherstone Academy 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
Havergal CofE (C) Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good
St Mary's Catholic Primary School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Lane Green First School 3.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
St Nicholas Church of England First School 3.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
St Christopher's Catholic Primary Academy 3.3 mi Standards maintained
Birches First School 3.5 mi Good Last distance published