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Secondary school in Wolverhampton

Ormiston NEW Academy

Marsh Lane, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV10 6SE

Sixth form
School website

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 28 April 2026.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

35.7 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

31% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

46% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

7% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.27confidence interval -0.52 to -0.02

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C-
Average points per entry
27.3

England average 32.3

A level students
30

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1094
Places
1200
How full
91% full — 1094 of 1200 places taken
Girls / boys
529 / 565
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
27%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
61%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
31%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
75%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
73%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
36%
No sustained destination
17%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
139

After sixth form

Went to university
34%

England 50%

In education, work or training
70%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
50

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

2% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
66%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
44

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Wolverhampton 002C, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
27%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
74%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
6%

England 17%

Households with no car
20%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ORMISTON ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Craig Cooling
Local authority
Wolverhampton
Ward
Bushbury North
Constituency
Wolverhampton West
URN
145134

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
School of Coding AEP LimitedOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Aldersley High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 43.5 1.1 mi
Moreton SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 39.3 1.4 mi
Our Lady and St Chad Catholic AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 40.4 1.5 mi
Bilbrook CofE (VC) Middle SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2023 1.9 mi
Codsall Community High SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 47.5 2.1 mi
Tettenhall College IncorporatedOther independent school No grade 2.3 mi
Thomas Telford University Technical CollegeUniversity technical college No grade 53.7 2.3 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Blackpool Aspire AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 36.7
St Paul's Way Trust SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 51.8
Academy 360Academy sponsor led Good 2022 31.7
Maria Fidelis Catholic School FCJVoluntary aided school No grade 41.9
Holte SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 39.4
North Liverpool AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 45.6
Holy Trinity Catholic SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 44
Park Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 28.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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