Woodlands School
near Wem, SY4 5PJ · Shropshire local authority
Wem’s School Grade C better than 32% of towns in England
What stands out about Woodlands School
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- 67% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Outside any built-up area: listed with Wem, the nearest town
- Homes in its postcode sector (SY4 5) sold for a median £260,000; Wem’s is £240,000
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 202554 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
No letter for Woodlands School
Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.
Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting June 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, March 2024.
Living near Woodlands School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SY4 5, the school’s postcode sector
Wem property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SY4 5 sell for a little over Wem’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
2 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗near Wem, SY4 5PJ
Woodlands School: common questions
What is Woodlands School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Woodlands School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SY4 5, sold for a median £260,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (367 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Wem’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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