The Telford Park School

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Telford and Wrekin·TF3 1FA
Composite score
35.5
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#3,169
National rank
#379
In West Midlands
#12
In Telford and Wrekin
Top 100%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
28.4
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
16%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
30%
% EBacc grade 5+
1%
EBacc average points score
2.48

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Inadequate
Personal development
Inadequate
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding effective?
No

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
99%
73 first choices, 108 places
First choices per place
0.68
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
226
any preference, for 108 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
n/a2022n/a20230.8920240.5520250.682026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for The Telford Park School yet. Telford and Wrekin 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
680
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
50.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
12.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
30.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
4.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
13.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
35.8%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,675
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

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About The Telford Park School

The Telford Park School is a secondary school in Telford and Wrekin, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. Around 680 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school holds an 'Inadequate' judgement from Ofsted. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 28.4, well below the national average of 46. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

16% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 30% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 99% of the families who made The Telford Park School their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 13.2%. There are about 17.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 50% 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. If you are considering The Telford Park School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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