All-through
Caroline Chisholm School
Wooldale Centre for Learning, Wootton Fields, Northampton, NN4 6TP
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 4 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 2049 of 2002 places
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trust
- CAROLINE CHISHOLM EDUCATION TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected May 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
January 2020
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
GCSE results
57%
50.4
2nd of 4 by our score, among the all-through schools in Northampton we can score - 8 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 107 |
| Average reading score | 108 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 72% |
| Working at a higher standard | 13% |
| Attainment 8 | 50.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.72 |
| Entered the EBacc | 86% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 78% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 57% |
| A level average points per entry | 35.02 |
| A level students | 165 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 67% |
| 23/24 | 68% |
| 24/25 | 72% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 55% |
| 22/23 | 57% |
| 23/24 | 55% |
| 24/25 | 57% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 37.6 |
| 22/23 | 32.8 |
| 23/24 | 31.6 |
| 24/25 | 35.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 107.0 |
| 24/25 | 108.0 |
Wooldale Centre for Learning, Wootton Fields, Northampton, NN4 6TP
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
West Northamptonshire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Principal
- Chris Bishop
- Address
- Wooldale Centre for Learning, Wootton Fields, Northampton, NN4 6TP
- Telephone
- 01604344744