Joseph Leckie Academy

School overview

Joseph Leckie Academy is a secondary school serving Walsall, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,520 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. Ofsted rated the school 'Good' in February 2026. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 42.4, below the national average of 46. That is down 1.3 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

30% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 55% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Joseph Leckie Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 213 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 88% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.4%. There are about 15.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 52% 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. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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.