The Royal School, Wolverhampton

About The Royal School, Wolverhampton

The Royal School, Wolverhampton, stands out sharply against the local authority average for secondary schools. With a Progress 8 score of 0.35, it sits well above the Wolverhampton average of -0.06, meaning pupils here make significantly more academic progress than their peers across the borough. That score places the school 4th out of 21 secondary schools in the local authority, putting it in the top quarter nationally. Its Attainment 8 score of 47.1 further reinforces this picture of strong performance. The school is also oversubscribed by a considerable margin: for 30 places in the 2025/26 intake, it received 930 applications, with 205 of those as first preferences. Only 25 first-preference offers were made, giving a clear sense of how sought-after a place here is. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection, an ungraded visit in March 2025, confirmed that standards are maintained, and its previous graded inspection in 2019 rated overall effectiveness as Good across the board.

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