Perton Middle School
Middle deemed secondary · Wolverhampton · WV6 7NR
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 3 February 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
399 pupils · 83% of 480 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 9–13
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 18.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 5.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 18.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.4% of pupils
- Website
- http://www.pertonmiddle.com/
- URN
- 124437
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2024
0.14 first-choice applications per place7 places offered · 1 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
110 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
88% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 8% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 2 February 2023: School remains Good
- 11 July 2017: Good
- 26 April 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.