Graded inspection · Mar 2023 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in WalsallSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry803 applications · 178 places offered · 367 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 4.5; Walsall median median 2.4
- 2025 4.8; Walsall median median 2.6
- 2024 5.0; Walsall median median 2.5
- 2023 4.8; Walsall median median 2.2
- 2022 4.5; Walsall median median 2.2
- 2021 4.8; Walsall median median 2.2
- 2020 4.3; Walsall median median 2.5
- 2019 4.6; Walsall median median 2.5
- 2018 5.2; Walsall median median 2.3
- 2017 5.0; Walsall median median 2.4
- 2016 4.9; Walsall median median 2.1
- 2015 5.6; Walsall median median 2.1
- 2014 6.8; Walsall median median 2.2
- This school
- Walsall median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Selective: register for the entrance test with the school first, usually by the summer before (dates vary). Dates
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 178 | 803 | 4.5 | 367 | 2.06 |
| Sep 2025 | 174 | 828 | 4.8 | 343 | 1.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 166 | 828 | 5.0 | 357 | 2.15 |
| Sep 2023 | 167 | 794 | 4.8 | 358 | 2.14 |
| Sep 2022 | 177 | 790 | 4.5 | 352 | 1.99 |
| Sep 2021 | 174 | 837 | 4.8 | 430 | 2.47 |
| Sep 2020 | 175 | 747 | 4.3 | 319 | 1.82 |
| Sep 2019 | 149 | 681 | 4.6 | 305 | 2.05 |
| Sep 2018 | 148 | 772 | 5.2 | 386 | 2.61 |
| Sep 2017 | 148 | 740 | 5.0 | 338 | 2.28 |
| Sep 2016 | 144 | 705 | 4.9 | 303 | 2.10 |
| Sep 2015 | 114 | 643 | 5.6 | 227 | 1.99 |
| Sep 2014 | 107 | 725 | 6.8 | 290 | 2.71 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 180 | 72.6 | 94% | 97% | – |
| 2024/25 | 179 | 74.2 | 97% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 150 | 74.3 | 97% | 100% | +0.60 |
| 2022/23 | 148 | 74.3 | 98% | 99% | +0.52 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Queen Mary's Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20234.5applications per place 72.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.7 km · WalsallRemains Good20232.4applications per place 36.5Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · WalsallGraded · no overall grade202532.8Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · Walsall20265.7applications per place 74.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.7 km · Walsall20261.4applications per place 42.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · WalsallRemains Good20231.6applications per place 37.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · SandwellStandards maintained20252.5applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · SandwellGood20242.6applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · SandwellRemains Good20222.5applications per place 44.1Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136773 · 335/5404
- Trust
- The Mercian Trust
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 792 pupils · 1,399 on roll
- Free school meals
- 27.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2011
- Replaced
- Queen Mary's Grammar School (URN 104262)
- Address
- Sutton Road, Walsall, WS1 2PG
- Local authority
- Walsall
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources