School profile
Woodlands School
Tilley Green, Wem, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 5PJ
Overview
Woodlands School is a special / send school (academy special sponsor led) in Shrewsbury, West Midlands, for pupils aged 9–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 9–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 82
- Pupils on roll
- 67
- URN
- 148437
Admissions
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Academy trust or group
- MARCHES ACADEMY TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — average scaled score | 90 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 87 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 90 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 10% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 36% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 9 June 2026 · Published 6 July 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 5 March 2024 · Published 24 April 2024
Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement
Safeguarding was effective: Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
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Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Tilley Green, Wem, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 5PJ
- Local authority
- Shropshire
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