Secondary
Wombourne High School
Ounsdale Road, Wombourne, Wolverhampton, WV5 8BJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 995 of 1106 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.3
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- INVICTUS EDUCATION TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 74.3
- Pupils per adult
- 14.5
- Pupils
- 1,077
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2022
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
March 2018
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
GCSE results
39%
2 points below the Wolverhampton average (41% across 21 schools)
42.1
3.5 below the Wolverhampton average (45.6 across 21 schools)
10th of 24 by our score, among the secondary schools in Wolverhampton we can score - 29 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 42.1 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.75 |
| Entered the EBacc | 51% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 61% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 39% |
| A level average points per entry | 31.99 |
| A level students | 50 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 50% |
| 22/23 | 40% |
| 23/24 | 43% |
| 24/25 | 39% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 35.6 |
| 22/23 | 29.4 |
| 23/24 | 25.9 |
| 24/25 | 32.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.01 |
| 22/23 | -0.20 |
| 23/24 | -0.08 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 48.1 |
| 22/23 | 45.4 |
| 23/24 | 44.0 |
| 24/25 | 42.1 |
Ounsdale Road, Wombourne, Wolverhampton, WV5 8BJ
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Staffordshire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Principal
- Nick Bradnick-Thompson
- Address
- Ounsdale Road, Wombourne, Wolverhampton, WV5 8BJ
- Telephone
- 01902504930