United Kingdom / Regions / Walsall
Walsall
West Midlands, England · population ~287k · 120 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 100 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Walsall
120 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (100 of 120 here), 92.5% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (0.8% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 120 schools.
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Aldridge School - A Science College | Secondary | 1,585 | Good· | 26/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Joseph Leckie Academy | Secondary | 1,520 | Good | 12/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Barr Beacon School | Secondary | 1,501 | Good | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Streetly Academy | Secondary | 1,500 | Good | 18/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bloxwich Academy | Secondary | 1,449 | Good | 03/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy | Secondary | 1,437 | Good | 25/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Walsall Academy | Secondary | 1,418 | Requires Improvement | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen Mary's Grammar School | Secondary | 1,377 | Outstanding | 28/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Shire Oak Academy | Secondary | 1,297 | Not graded | 21/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
West Walsall E-ACT Academy | Secondary | 1,186 | Good· | 18/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Pool Hayes Academy | Secondary | 1,150 | Good | 26/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Francis of Assisi Catholic College | Secondary | 1,113 | Good· | 27/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Grace Academy Darlaston | Secondary | 1,068 | Good· | 27/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Willenhall E-ACT Academy | Secondary | 1,057 | Not graded | 13/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Blue Coat Church of England Academy | Secondary | 967 | Good· | 25/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen Mary's High School | Secondary | 944 | Outstanding | 12/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Brownhills Ormiston Academy | Secondary | 744 | Not graded | 09/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Hillary Primary School | Primary | 697 | Requires Improvement | 20/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Blackwood School | Primary | 678 | Not graded | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Fibbersley Park Academy | Primary | 645 | Good | 25/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.