Smestow Academy
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Wolverhampton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
5.331 miles
Published by City of Wolverhampton Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Smestow Academy is a secondary school in Wolverhampton for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Wolverhampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2025 entry.
Smestow 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 | 5.331 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
- Year 7 2026 drew 40 first-choice applications for 85 offers, 0.5 first choices per offer and the lowest of 18 Wolverhampton secondary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, and 45 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The Year 7 2025 last distance offered was 5.331 miles, 5th longest of 13 Wolverhampton secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 last distance (middle figure 2.59 miles).
- In 2024/25, 31% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd lowest 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
- Windmill Crescent, Wolverhampton, WV3 8HU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Council
- Wolverhampton
- Pupils on roll
- 589 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 57.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 11 November 2025
Strengths
- “There have been significant improvements at the school since it opened as Smestow Academy in January 2023.”
- “Pupils and staff speak about the culture shift that has happened and why they feel happy to come to school.”
- “This has contributed to the improvement in pupils’ behaviour and attendance.”
To improve
- “However, pupils’ speaking and writing skills still need some further development.”
- “Leaders are working to ensure that teaching is consistently effective and meets pupils' needs.”
- “However, this is not consistent across the school.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 January 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) | 42.6 | 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: 40 first-preference applications, 85 offers in total, 40 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.
- St Peter's Collegiate Academy 1.0 mi Not judged
- Highfields School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Edmund's Catholic Academy 1.1 mi Standards maintained
- St Regis Church of England Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Wolverhampton Girls' High School 1.4 mi Outstanding
- Colton Hills Community School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Aldersley High School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thomas Telford University Technical College 2.8 mi Not judged