Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Walsall
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 | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 27 February 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding · as Beacon Primary School, URN 131580
- 10 November 2022Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving) · as Beacon Primary School, URN 131580
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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 entry81 applications · 54 places offered · 53 named it first
HistoryEarlier years not shown: formed from, or split from, other schools.
- 2026 1.5; Walsall median median 1.6
- 2025 1.7; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2024 1.7; Walsall median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2023 1.4; Walsall median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2022 1.5; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2021 1.4; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2020 1.2; Walsall median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 1.5; Walsall median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2018 1.6; Walsall median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 1.1; Walsall median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 1.2; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.3; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2014 1.2; Walsall median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Walsall median
Dashed bars: as Beacon Primary School (URN 131580), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
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 | 54 | 81 | 1.5 | 53 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2025 * | 59 | 102 | 1.7 | 57 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 * | 48 | 82 | 1.7 | 46 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 * | 59 | 80 | 1.4 | 55 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2022 * | 47 | 72 | 1.5 | 46 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2021 * | 54 | 77 | 1.4 | 50 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2020 * | 54 | 67 | 1.2 | 43 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2019 * | 46 | 68 | 1.5 | 34 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2018 * | 36 | 56 | 1.6 | 30 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2017 * | 31 | 33 | 1.1 | 20 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2016 * | 46 | 57 | 1.2 | 42 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2015 * | 38 | 50 | 1.3 | 35 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2014 * | 45 | 55 | 1.2 | 41 | 0.91 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Beacon AcademyThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20241.5applications per place
- 0.7 km · Walsall20261.9applications per place
- 0.7 km · Walsall202679%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · WalsallGood20231.9applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · WolverhamptonGood20231.9applications per place 55%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Walsall20261.2applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · WalsallGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · Wolverhampton20261.9applications per place 87%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · WalsallStandards maintained20241.5applications per place
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 151995 · 335/2247
- Capacity
- 485 pupils · 488 on roll
- Free school meals
- 50.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Replaced
- Beacon Primary School (URN 131580)
- Address
- Davis Road, New Invention, Walsall, WV12 5HA
- Local authority
- Walsall
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources