All-through
The Royal School, Wolverhampton
Penn Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 0EG
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Free schools
- Ages
- 4 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1488 of 1454 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
- Local authority
- Wolverhampton
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Boarding
- Yes
- Trust
- THE ROYAL SCHOOL, WOLVERHAMPTON
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 79.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 133.5
- Pupils per adult
- 11.2
- Pupils
- 1,493
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 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. 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.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
33%
43.3
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 101 |
| Average reading score | 104 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 52% |
| Working at a higher standard | 3% |
| Attainment 8 | 43.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.56 |
| Entered the EBacc | 11% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 56% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 33% |
| A level average points per entry | 29.17 |
| A level students | 122 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 72% |
| 23/24 | 60% |
| 24/25 | 52% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 56% |
| 22/23 | 61% |
| 23/24 | 47% |
| 24/25 | 33% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 26.6 |
| 22/23 | 30.5 |
| 23/24 | 30.9 |
| 24/25 | 29.2 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 106.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.42 |
| 22/23 | +0.37 |
| 23/24 | +0.35 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 106.0 |
| 23/24 | 103.0 |
| 24/25 | 101.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 52.3 |
| 22/23 | 50.5 |
| 23/24 | 47.1 |
| 24/25 | 43.3 |
Penn Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 0EG
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 15 January, the year before starting.
Wolverhampton 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
- Tom Macdonald
- Address
- Penn Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 0EG
- Telephone
- 01902341230