Queen Mary's High School

Academy converter·Secondary school Walsall·WS4 2AE
Composite score
91.9
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National rank
#15
In West Midlands
#2
In Walsall
Top 2%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
73.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
95%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
99%
% EBacc grade 5+
80%
EBacc average points score
7.17

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
36%
263 first choices, 149 places
First choices per place
1.76
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
851
any preference, for 149 places
Applications from another council area
64%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.40
00.511.522.5
1 per place
1.8420221.9020231.8720242.1720251.762026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Queen Mary's High School 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
944
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
27.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
29.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
5.7%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
0.3%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.9%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
18.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,987
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
98%
120 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
97%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Queen Mary's High School is a girls' secondary school serving Walsall, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 944 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Queen Mary's High School 'Outstanding'. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 73.5 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 1.4 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 2% of secondary schools in England.

95% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 99% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Queen Mary's High School is oversubscribed: about 4 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 263 first choices for 149 places. After Year 11, 98% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 5.9%. There are about 18.5 pupils per teacher. When comparing schools, it is still worth visiting in person to see whether the atmosphere and approach suit your child. 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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