Wolsingham School
- Wolsingham School
The Grammar School Building
West End
Wolsingham
Bishop Auckland
County Durham
DL13 3DJ - Head: Mr Nick Mitchinson
- T 01388 527302
- F 01388 528173
- E [email protected]
- W www.wolsinghamschool.net
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Durham
- Pupils: 714
- Religion: Does not apply
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 1 Short inspection 17th May 2023
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What the school says...
School Curriculum Award
DfES School Achievement Award
Artsmark
Creative Partnership School
affiliated to Specialist Colleges Trust
UK Online Centre
Learn Direct Centre
Centre of Excellence for Biotechnology
Winner and runner-up in two categories of the regional final of Teacher Awards
Winner of Sixth Form Robot Wars Challenge
This is not currently a GSG-reviewed school.
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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