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Secondary school in Wolverhampton

St Edmund's Catholic Academy

Compton Park, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 9DU

Sixth form Roman Catholic Full
School website 01902558888

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 19 March 2025.

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

50.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

47% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

75% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

21% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half 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 top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.19confidence interval -0.01 to 0.39

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
B-
Average points per entry
35.8

England average 32.3

A level students
66

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1171
Places
896
How full
Full — 1171 pupils against 896 places
Girls / boys
594 / 577
Overall absence
4%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
9%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
45%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
27%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
47%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
193

After sixth form

Went to university
64%

England 50%

In education, work or training
82%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
96

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

22% 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
81%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
72

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 021D, 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
50%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
83%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

England 17%

Households with no car
10%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
46%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ST GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Maggie Hazeldine
Local authority
Wolverhampton
Ward
Park
Constituency
Wolverhampton West
URN
139891

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
St Peter's Collegiate AcademyAcademy converter No grade 44.8 0.2 mi
Wolverhampton Girls' High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 75.4 0.3 mi
Tettenhall College IncorporatedOther independent school No grade 0.5 mi
Wolverhampton Grammar SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
St Regis Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 36.5 1.1 mi
Smestow AcademyAcademy converter No grade 42.6 1.1 mi
Perton Middle SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 1.3 mi
Progress Schools - WolverhamptonOther independent school No grade 1.4 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
Our Lady's RC High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 49.1
Cantell SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2024 46.9
Trinity AcademyFree schools Good 2022 38.7
UTC HeathrowUniversity technical college Good 2023 32.2
St Thomas More Catholic School, WillenhallVoluntary aided school Good 2022 41.4
Oasis Academy BrightstoweAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.2
Droylsden AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 47.7
Fulwood AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.4

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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