St Paul's Church of England Aided Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Wolverhampton·WV9 5NR
Composite score
20.2
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#14,448
National rank
#1537
In West Midlands
#69
In Wolverhampton
Top 98%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
31%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
73%
41 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.37
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
54
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.37
00.511.52
1 per place
0.9620221.0320231.0020241.0020251.372026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Paul's Church of England Aided Primary School yet. Wolverhampton does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
223
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
41.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
28.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,920
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

St Paul's Church of England Aided Primary School at a glance

Located in Wolverhampton, St Paul's Church of England Aided Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 223 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 31% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 15.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 102 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Competition for places is real here - 73% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (41 first choices for 30 places). Overall pupil absence was 5.8%. There are about 19.2 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 42% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. St Paul's Church of England Aided Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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