Graded inspection · Apr 2025 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 29 April 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade · as Castlefort Junior Mixed and Infant School, URN 104204
- 22 January 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains Good · as Castlefort Junior Mixed and Infant School, URN 104204
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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 entry58 applications · 29 places offered · 27 named it first
- 2026 2.0; Walsall median median 1.6
- 2025 2.1; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2024 2.4; Walsall median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2023 2.1; Walsall median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2022 2.0; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2021 1.7; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2020 2.4; Walsall median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 1.9; Walsall median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2018 3.1; Walsall median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 2.0; Walsall median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 2.1; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.7; Walsall median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2014 1.6; Walsall median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Walsall median
Dashed bars: as Castlefort Junior Mixed and Infant School (URN 104204), 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 | 29 | 58 | 2.0 | 27 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2025 * | 26 | 54 | 2.1 | 23 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2024 * | 30 | 71 | 2.4 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2023 * | 29 | 60 | 2.1 | 22 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2022 * | 23 | 45 | 2.0 | 23 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 * | 30 | 52 | 1.7 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 71 | 2.4 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 56 | 1.9 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 * | 13 | 40 | 3.1 | 11 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 60 | 2.0 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2016 * | 23 | 49 | 2.1 | 21 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 51 | 1.7 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 47 | 1.6 | 25 | 0.83 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Castlefort AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.0applications per place
- 0.6 km · WalsallGood20231.5applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · WalsallGood20222.1applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · WalsallGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · WalsallGraded · no overall grade20252.0applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · StaffordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 78%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · WalsallRemains Good20221.6applications per place 41%met the SATs standard
- 2.4 km · Walsall20261.7applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 2.4 km · WalsallRemains Good20241.8applications 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
- 152001 · 335/2222
- Capacity
- 294 pupils · 225 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Replaced
- Castlefort Junior Mixed and Infant School (URN 104204)
- Address
- Castlefort Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall, WS9 9JP
- Local authority
- Walsall
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources