United Kingdom / Regions / Dudley
Dudley
West Midlands, England · population ~322k · 107 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 91 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Dudley
107 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (91 of 107 here), 88.8% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 2 schools (1.9% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 107 schools.
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Windsor High School and Sixth Form | Secondary | 1,760 | Good· | 08/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Earls High School | Secondary | 1,293 | Good | 26/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Redhill School | Secondary | 1,211 | Good | 25/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Dormston School | Secondary | 1,138 | Good | 08/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Summerhill School | Secondary | 1,091 | Good· | 09/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Beacon Hill Academy | Secondary | 1,080 | Good | 08/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ellowes Hall Sports College | Secondary | 1,065 | Good | 25/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Leasowes High School | Secondary | 1,054 | Good· | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Crestwood School | Secondary | 1,028 | Good· | 22/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Link Academy | Secondary | 1,014 | Good | 08/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Old Swinford Hospital | Secondary | 947 | Good· | 26/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Wordsley School | Secondary | 933 | Good· | 21/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kingswinford Academy | Secondary | 919 | Good· | 11/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Thorns Collegiate Academy | Secondary | 895 | Requires Improvement | 12/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St James Academy | Secondary | 859 | Good | 04/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Bishop Milner Catholic College | Secondary | 837 | Good· | 20/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Peters Hill Primary School | Primary | 753 | Good· | 20/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Jesson's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 746 | Requires Improvement | 07/02/2023 | Ofsted |
Roberts Primary School | Primary | 661 | Requires Improvement | 02/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Pedmore High School | Secondary | 658 | Good· | 15/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.