Smestow Academy
Ofsted: Expected
Score
C57
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Wolverhampton, WV3 8HU
- Distance
- 1.8km away
Highfields School
Boundary Way, Penn, Wolverhampton, WV4 4NT
Local ranking5th of 20 secondary schools in Wolverhampton
Ofsted: Expected
Secondary
Phase
1791
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Strong standard
- Curriculum & teaching
- Expected standard
- Attendance & behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Post-16 provision
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 51.7 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 59.1% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 80.4% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 6.9% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 4.1 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 276
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 93.0%
- Continued in education
- 89.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 3.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 5.0%
After A-Levels 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 89.0%
- Higher education
- 63.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 4.0%
- Employment
- 15.0%
- Not sustained
- 8.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25C+
Avg A-Level Grade
31.8
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
32.6
Best 3 A-Levels
nat 35.8
184
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 17.4% nat17.5%
- Applied General Avg Points
- 32.8
- 16-18 Cohort
- 381
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1781
- Boys
- 880 (49%)
- Girls
- 901 (51%)
- Capacity
- 1791 (99% full)
- SEND
- 19.7%
- FSM Eligible
- 32.2%
- EAL
- 15.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.4%
- SEN Support
- 17.4%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.5:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 108.1
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,017/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 6.6% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 17.2% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 45.4%
- Asian Indian: 25.3%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 6.4%
- Asian Pakistani: 4.2%
- Mixed White & Asian: 4.1%
- Black African: 3.2%
- Mixed Other: 2.7%
- Asian Other: 2.0%
45.4%
White British
25.3%
Asian Indian
6.4%
Mixed White & Black Caribbean
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Boundary Way
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 142317
- UKPRN
- 10053915
- Establishment No.
- 4113
- Trust
- LYKOS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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