Wolverley CofE Secondary School, Kidderminster

Ofsted's report card from its 10 February 2026 inspection grades Wolverley CofE Secondary School on 7 areas: 7 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils do not consistently achieve as well as they could."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders have a clearly understood ‘attend and achieve' strategy to tackle issues of poor attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "The delivery of the curriculum is variable."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders are knowledgeable about how best to support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Currently, the quality of the school's provision is variable."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "Leaders have established a culture that promotes diversity and difference."

Post 16 provision - Needs attention. "Historically, students have not achieved well."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders, including those responsible for governance, should ensure that there is greater precision when evaluating how effectively strategies and actions are implemented across the school"; "Leaders should ensure that the post-16 curriculum, and its delivery, is carefully reviewed to meet the needs of all students and enable them to achieve well"; "Leaders should ensure that checks on pupils' understanding are used consistently to support pupils in remembering and using the key skills and knowledge that they need"; "Leaders should ensure that adaptations are made to teaching and assessment to enable pupils, including those who face barriers to their learning and those who are high attaining, to receive effective support to deepen their knowledge and key skills across the curriculum and achieve all that they are capable of"; "Leaders should ensure that their high expectations for behaviour are understood and demonstrated by pupils and staff so that behaviour is positive and respectful across the school"; "Leaders should ensure that all pupils are provided with a consistently delivered, well-structured and systematic careers programme to prepare them effectively for life beyond the school".

In its own words: "At Wolverley we believe that everyone is unique. We enable everyone to experience 'life in all its fullness' through living out our core biblical values."

From the headteacher's welcome: "Welcome to Wolverley Church of England Secondary School. As Headteacher it is my privilege to lead the Wolverley Family where our Christian values of Love, Justice, Compassion and Freedom shape everything we do."

Coming up: an open evening on Tuesday 24 November 2026 at 6pm. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at Wolverley CofE Secondary School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 40.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 44.4 in Worcestershire and 47 across England.

36% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 41% in Worcestershire and 47% in England.

That is down from 42.4 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.41: pupils made below 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 29, against 46.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 17.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 25 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Spanish and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 190 families put Wolverley CofE Secondary School as their first choice and 382 named it as one of their preferences, for 167 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 26 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Wolverley CofE Secondary School are Holy Trinity School (1.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.2); Baxter College (2.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 33.3); King Charles I School (2.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42.1); and Kinver High School and Sixth Form (2.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 50.6).

Wolverley CofE Secondary School's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

125 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Wolverley CofE Secondary School (as of April 2026): 74% would recommend the school, 71% say their child is happy there and 42% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (74%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (42%).

Of the 174 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 81% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 44% to a further education college, 6% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Of the 41 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 39% went on to university or other higher education, 10% to apprenticeships and 34% into work. 14% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

1.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Kidderminster Rail Station, about 2.3 miles away in a straight line.

1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is Wolverley Secondary School (adjacent), 180 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 12 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual offences and other crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Worcestershire (78).

In 2024/25, Wolverley CofE Secondary School issued 126 suspensions, 13.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Wolverley CofE Secondary School are Wolverley Sebright Primary Academy (0.4 miles), Cookley Sebright Primary School (0.9 miles), St Oswald's CofE Primary School (1.3 miles) and St Catherine's CofE (VC) Primary School (1.4 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.