Palfrey Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Walsall, Walsall·WS1 4HY
School type
Infant school
Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Palfrey Infant School 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.

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

School overview

Palfrey Infant School is a primary school serving Walsall, Walsall, classified by the DfE as an academy converter. It has 326 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Palfrey Infant School 'Requires improvement'.

The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% 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. If you are considering Palfrey Infant School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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 further down the page.

School profile

Pupils on roll 326 % FSM ever-6 36.7% % EAL 78.8% Age range 3–7 Gender Mixed

Location

Nearby primary schools