St Peter's Collegiate Academy
Ofsted: Good
Score
C57
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- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Wolverhampton, WV3 9DU
- Distance
- 1.6km away
Smestow Academy
Windmill Crescent, Wolverhampton, WV3 8HU
Local ranking9th of 20 secondary schools in Wolverhampton
Ofsted: ExpectedUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1010
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2025 A-levels · Ofsted inspection 11 November 2025. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Smestow School (URN 140586) since 31 December 2022. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum & teaching
- Expected standard
- Attendance & behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership & governance
- Strong standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Post-16 provision
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 48.6 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 47.8% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 61.9% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 113
Destinations
After GCSE 2022-23
- Sustained education/employment
- 96.0%
- Continued in education
- 89.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 2.0%
- Employment
- 5.0%
- Not sustained
- 2.0%
After A-Levels 2022-23
- Sustained education/employment
- 79.0%
- Higher education
- 44.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 6.0%
- Employment
- 21.0%
- Not sustained
- 19.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
C-
Avg A-Level Grade
26.5
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
9
A-Level Students
- Applied General Avg Points
- 23.4
- 16-18 Cohort
- 36
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 552
- Boys
- 294 (50%)
- Girls
- 295 (50%)
- Capacity
- 1010 (58% full)
- SEND
- 12.7%
- FSM Eligible
- 54.8%
- EAL
- 42.2%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.3%
- SEN Support
- 11.4%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 11.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 46.4
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,931/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 8.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 26.7% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 24.8%
- Asian Indian: 19.9%
- Black African: 11.0%
- White Other: 7.7%
- Asian Pakistani: 6.8%
- Other: 5.6%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 5.2%
- Mixed Other: 4.6%
24.8%
White British
19.9%
Asian Indian
11.0%
Black African
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Windmill Crescent
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 149635
- UKPRN
- 10091999
- Establishment No.
- 4011
- Trust
- MATRIX ACADEMY TRUST
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