St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Walsall·WS2 8HN
Composite score
42.9
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#9,910
National rank
#1047
In West Midlands
#45
In Walsall
Top 67%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
66%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 03/02/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Needs attention
Inclusion
Expected standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Needs attention

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
96%
27 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
52
any preference, for 29 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9220221.0720230.8620240.8920250.932026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall yet. Walsall does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
220
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
39.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
54.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,814
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall is a primary school serving Walsall, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 220 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 66% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 6.0 percentage points compared with 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 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 96% of the families who made St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.8%. There are about 25.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 39% 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. St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall 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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