Devonshire Infant Academy

Academy converter·Infant school Smethwick, Sandwell·B67 7AT

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Devonshire Infant Academy is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

81%

107 first choices, 89 places

First choices per place

1.20

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

155

any preference, for 89 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.05

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9320220.9620231.0220241.2620251.202026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Devonshire Infant Academy yet. Sandwell 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).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Outstanding

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 349
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

28.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

81.7%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

13.2%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

14.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

26.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,809

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Devonshire Junior Academy Smethwick · 0.0 mi 57.8 Crocketts Community Primary School Smethwick · 0.4 mi 51.6 Uplands Manor Primary School and Nursery Smethwick · 0.7 mi 36.9 Galton Valley Primary School Smethwick · 0.7 mi 53.2 Victoria Park Primary Smethwick · 0.8 mi 42.4 George Betts Primary Academy Smethwick · 0.8 mi 74.2 Annie Lennard Primary School Smethwick · 0.8 mi 43.8 Shireland Technology Primary Smethwick · 0.9 mi 69.8

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

About Devonshire Infant Academy

Devonshire Infant Academy is a primary school in Smethwick, Sandwell, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 349 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

Devonshire Infant Academy is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 107 first choices for 89 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 26.4 pupils per teacher. Devonshire Infant Academy 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.