Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 3 November 2022
Compared with the local authority and England
Results for 2025 were not published for this school. The Department for Education withholds figures when too few pupils took the tests, to protect their privacy.
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Wooler First School's last overall grade from Ofsted was Good, on 23 May 2017. Ofsted inspected it again on 3 November 2022 without giving a new overall grade.
Apply through the council where you live by 15 January for a Reception place starting that September. Children start Reception in the September after their fourth birthday. You can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference, and offers are sent on 16 April, or the next working day. A place in its nursery class does not carry on into Reception, so you still need to apply.
No. Distance only counts when Wooler First School has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by the local authority, Northumberland, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
Wooler First School had 86 pupils aged 2 to 11 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 135. It is a mixed school.
Voluntary aided school
6.7 miles away
Voluntary controlled school
7.4 miles away
Community school
7.6 miles away
Academy converter
7.8 miles away
Voluntary controlled school
10.8 miles away