Codsall Community High School, Wolverhampton

In 2026, pupils at Codsall Community High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.5, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.7 in Staffordshire and 47 across England.

49% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 39% in Staffordshire and 47% in England.

That is down from 47.5 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.19: pupils made above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 36.1, against 47.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 11.6 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 26 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Business Studies.

Staffordshire published that the last place offered for 2025 entry went to a family 4.209 miles away. The cut-off moves every year with the number of applications.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Codsall Community High School are Codsall Middle School (0.2 miles, Good); Bilbrook CofE (VC) Middle School (0.4 miles, Good); Aldersley High School (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.4); and St Regis Church of England Academy (1.9 miles, Attainment 8 34).

Codsall Community High School's 2026 results were higher than all 2 of them.

Of the 261 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 90% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 37% to a further education college, 5% to an apprenticeship and 0% into work.

Of the 123 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 45% went on to university or other higher education, 11% to apprenticeships and 26% into work. 7% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

1.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (81%), Mixed (9%) and Asian (5%).

In 2026, 142 pupils (13.6%) received SEN support and 26 (2.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Bilbrook Rail Station, about 210 metres away (roughly a 3-minute walk).

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Duck Lane (opposite), 160 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Codsall Community High School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 56 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Staffordshire (86).

In 2024/25, Codsall Community High School issued 43 suspensions, 4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Codsall Community High School are St Christopher's Catholic Primary Academy (under 0.1 miles), Lane Green First School (0.4 miles), St Nicholas Church of England First School (0.6 miles) and Birches First School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.