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State secondary · 11 to 19 · Mixed · 1,209 pupils

Ormiston SWB Academy

Dudley Street, Bilston, WV14 0LN · Wolverhampton
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Ofsted report card · April 2026(16/20)Oversubscribed · 1.1 first choices per place (2026)
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Summary

The key facts, in one place
GCSE (key stage 4) The league rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase on the newest year's DfE results, the same rank as on the Schools map. In England: 2,563rd of 3,223 on the same figure. Band: Lower half.
(16/20)Rank among 20 Wolverhampton secondaries with results, 2026 results (Attainment 8)
See the Wolverhampton league table →
Inspection
Ofsted report card, April 2026
Getting in
Oversubscribed; last offer 1.47 mi (2025)
Results
-0.50 progress 8; 40.3 attainment 8
Size
1,209 pupils; 225 places a year; classes of 22
Run by
Ormiston Academies Trust
Type
Academy sponsor led
Ages
11 to 19 · Mixed
Strengths, and things to check
  • Suspensions per 100 pupils: 5.2, against 8.2 in Wolverhampton.
  • Progress 8: -0.50, against -0.01 in Wolverhampton.
  • Attainment 8: 40.3, against 46.4 in Wolverhampton.
  • English and maths, grade 5+: 32%, against 44% in Wolverhampton.
Could your child get in?Offers reached between 1.29 and 1.47 miles in the last 3 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.Check a postcode ↓ Schools for usRank every school near you by the measures that matter to your family, each reason shown.Rank schools →

At a glance

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SourceWhere these figures come from

How it is worked outWolverhampton and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state secondary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.

Against Wolverhampton and England
This schoolWolverhamptonEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Academic
Progress 8How far pupils progressed between the end of primary school and GCSEs, against pupils across England who started at the same level. 0 is average; +0.5 means half a grade better in each subject.
-0.50
Worse than Wolverhampton
Attainment 8The average GCSE score across eight subjects, including English and maths counted twice. A grade 5 in all eight would score 50.
40.3
Worse than Wolverhampton
English and maths, grade 5+The share of pupils with grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE (a strong pass).
32%
Worse than Wolverhampton
Attendance and behaviour
Sessions missedHalf-day sessions missed, authorised or not, as a share of all sessions in the school year (DfE pupil absence). Lower is better.
8.9%
Worse than Wolverhampton
Persistently absentPupils who missed one session in ten or more. Lower is better.
25.1%
Worse than Wolverhampton
Suspensions per 100 pupilsSuspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Lower is better; one or two incidents move a small school a lot.
5.2
Better than Wolverhampton
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
21.8
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
55%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
15.3
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Year 7 place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.1
More sought after than Wolverhampton
COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · YEAR 7 2027
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SourceCity of Wolverhampton Council offer-day figures, 2018 to 2025.

How it is worked outThe bars show how far the last place offered reached each year. A full bar means everyone who applied was offered a place; a dash means we hold no distance for that year. Your postcode is set against each year's last distance.

Things to know
  • A record of past years, not a promise: the distance changes every year with who applies.

Offers reached between 1.29 and 1.47 miles in the last 3 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home.

Free, no account needed. Your postcode is used for this check and not kept.

Offers

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Year 7. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Last distance offeredAdd your home to this chart
1.5 mi0.750
201820192025

Offer day, year by year

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SourceCouncil offer-day figures: City of Wolverhampton Council, 2018 to 2025.

Things to know
  • Distances are straight lines from the school.
EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Year 72025230467230—1.47
Year 72019230365230—1.29
Year 72018230318230—1.4

A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Quality

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SourceOfsted · inspected 21 April 2026
DfE school performance tables · 2023/2024
DfE school performance tables · 2025/2026

  • Ofsted report card (Achievement: Expected standard; Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met)
  • Progress 8: -0.50 (England +0.01) (county -0.01)
  • Attainment 8: 40.3 (England 47.4) (county 46.4)
  • English and maths grade 5 or above: 32% (England 48%) (county 44%)
  • Progress, set against pupils who started with the same results: well below average

Results

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SourceDfE school performance tables, 2023/2024, 2024/2025, 2025/2026.

MeasureThis schoolEnglandCouncilYear
Progress 8-0.50+0.01-0.012023/2024
Attainment 840.347.446.42025/2026
English and maths grade 5 or above32%48%44%2025/2026
Average A level gradeC-——2024/2025

League table place

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SourceDfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.

TableLeague rank
GCSE (key stage 4)(16/20)
A level (16 to 18)(14/20)

Where leavers go

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SourceDfE, destination measures.

Things to know
  • A figure DfE hides for a small group is left out, not shown as nought. The newest year may be provisional.
StageLeavers inPupilsIn a sustained placeOf which
After GCSEs2023/2421686%In education 83%; Apprenticeship 1.9%; Employment 1.4%
After GCSEs2022/2322584%In education 82%; Apprenticeship 1.8%; Employment 0.9%
After GCSEs2021/2220384%In education 80%; Apprenticeship 2.0%; Employment 2.0%
After sixth form2023/244785%Further education 4.3%; Apprenticeship 2.1%; Employment 13%
After sixth form2022/232868%Further education 0.0%; Apprenticeship 11%; Employment 3.6%
After sixth form2021/224176%Further education 2.4%; Apprenticeship 0.0%; Employment 22%
Wolverhampton league tableEvery school of this phase in the council on these results.See the table →

Daily life and who goes there

Daily life

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SourceDfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level · 2024/25
DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level · 2024/25
DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
DfE, school workforce · November 2025
DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

  • Absence: 8.9% of sessions missed; 25% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 9.7% and 29%
  • Suspensions: 5 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 26); 3 permanent exclusions
  • Classes average 21.8 pupils; 14% of classes have more than 30
  • 15.3 pupils for each teacher
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 104 m, tram or metro 475 m
  • 63 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 16 serious)
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 12.9 µg/m³, PM2.5 7.8 (1 km square, background level)

Absence

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SourceDfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25.

Things to know
  • Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (40% or more), the median of 758 schools.
YearSessions missedAuthorisedUnauthorisedPupils missing 1 in 10Pupils missing 1 in 2
2024/258.9%1.8%7.1%25%3.9%
2023/2410%1.8%8.3%28%5.0%
2022/239.9%2.0%7.9%28%4.6%
Schools with a similar intake9.7%29%

Suspensions and exclusions

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SourceDfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/255.24.5%613
2023/245.75.2%671
2022/236.54.5%763
Schools with a similar intake25.9

Class sizes and staff

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SourceDfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size21.82025/26
Classes over 30 pupils14%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher15.3November 2025

Stops nearby

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SourceDfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current.

Things to know
  • A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.
KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus104
tram or metro475

Road collisions within 500 m

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SourceDfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025.

Things to know
  • 16 serious and 0 fatal in all; 14 involved a pedestrian, 7 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.
YearCollisions
202516
202411
20238
202213
202115

Air quality

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SourceDEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Things to know
  • A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.
PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO212.92024
PM1012.12024
PM257.82024

Who goes there

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SourceDfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals55%2025/26
First language other than English12%2025/26
SEN support17%2025/26
Education, health and care plan3.6%2025/26
Girls50%2025/26

Ofsted

Ofsted, April 2026The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and wellbeingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Safeguarding standardsMet

Inspections

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SourceOfsted, 2026.

DateKindOutcome
21 April 2026Report card7 areas graded
24 November 2021Graded inspectionGood

Admissions

Getting in

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SourceDfE, school applications and offers · Year 7 2026

  • 240 families put it first for 225 places; 206 of them got in
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Applications and offers, DfE

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SourceDfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2018 to 2026.

Things to know
  • Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.
EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Year 72026225240452206
Year 72025228230461207
Year 72024222229440197
Year 72023223235447196
Year 72022229272458200
Year 72021194210398175
Year 72020189153331147
Year 72019224260494203
Year 72018226236416206

Feeder school rules

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SourceThe admission arrangements the school or council published.

How it is worked outQuoted word for word from those arrangements.

Things to know
  • Check the quote against the school's own current admission policy before you rely on it: rules change each year.

We found no priority for named primary schools in the arrangements for 2026/27 (the document). Our tools read it, but nobody has read it line by line.

Who runs it

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SourceDfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined July 2017
DfE, open academies list
DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 July 2017

  • Ormiston Academies Trust, with 44 schools
  • Opened as an academy (sponsored) on 1 July 2017
  • Replaced South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy (URN 135983)
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Fees and clubs

State schools charge no tuition fees. Breakfast clubs, after-school clubs and holiday clubs are set by each school: ask the school what it runs and what it costs.

Childcare costsWhat wraparound care and early years places cost, and what funding covers.See costs →

Nearby

Schools nearby

The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton0.7 miMoseley Park1.0 miSt Matthias School1.7 miColton Hills Community School2.4 miCompare side by side →

Nurseries nearby

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SourceOfsted early years register.

Jumping Jo's Day Nursery0.3 miles
Little Bundles Of Joy0.4 miles
Little Walkers Day Nursery Coseley1.0 miles
Tip Top Day Nursery, Bilston1.0 miles
Homes in reach of this schoolLook up any home near here: its sales, an open-data valuation, and which schools it keeps in reach.Search homes →

Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: City of Wolverhampton Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE school performance tables
  • DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, destination measures
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026 (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

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