Pinfold Street Primary School

Community school·Primary school Wednesbury, Walsall·WS10 8PU
Composite score
32.1
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#13,080
National rank
#1393
In West Midlands
#66
In Walsall
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
44%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
45 first choices, 49 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
66
any preference, for 49 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0320221.4220231.0720240.9320250.922026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Pinfold Street Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
5–11
Pupils on roll
424
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
52.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
20.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
24.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
25.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,484
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

School overview

Pinfold Street Primary School is a primary school serving Wednesbury, Walsall, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 424 pupils aged 5 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 44% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 10.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Pinfold Street Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 45 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 18.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 53% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Pinfold Street Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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