The Wordsley School

Academy converter·Secondary school Stourbridge, Dudley·DY8 5SP
Composite score
47.9
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#2,736
National rank
#322
In West Midlands
#18
In Dudley
Top 86%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
38.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
30%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
49%
% EBacc grade 5+
4%
EBacc average points score
3.21

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
120 first choices, 137 places
First choices per place
0.88
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
247
any preference, for 137 places
Applications from another council area
1%

Every child who put The Wordsley School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
933
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
36.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
8.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Staffing & funding

Spend per pupil
£2,227
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

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School overview

The Wordsley School is a secondary school serving Stourbridge, Dudley, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 933 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 38.3, below the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 1.3 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

30% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 49% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. The Wordsley School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 120 families who put it first were offered a place. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% 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. The Wordsley 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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