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Primary school in Walsall

Reedswood E-ACT Academy

Bentley Drive, Walsall, West Midlands, WS2 8RX

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School website 01922721323
Ofsted Report card January 2026
Met the expected standard 74% in the top quarter nationally
Chance of a place 93% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 2/10 more deprived

Ofsted

Report card27 January 2026

Ofsted report card published, on 27 January 2026.

The report card grades separate areas of the school's work. Ofsted does not combine them into one overall judgement.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
248 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Safeguarding
Met
Inclusion
Strong standard
Curriculum and teaching
Strong standard
Achievement
Exceptional
Attendance and behaviour
Strong standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Exceptional
Early years
Strong standard
Leadership and governance
Exceptional

The report-card scale is Exceptional, Strong standard, Expected standard, Needs attention and Urgent improvement. Safeguarding is graded Met or Not met. These are separate judgements, not a league table or an overall score. How Ofsted's current grades work.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

74% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

7% England 8.1%

Average reading score

104 England 105.3

Average maths score

106 England 104.1

On the headline measure this school is in the top quarter of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Slightly oversubscribed. Of the 61 families who named this school as their first choice, 93% were offered a place.

Places offered
59

for entry into Reception

Named it first choice
61
First choices per place
1.03

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
93%

England 95.1%

Demand has been broadly steady over three years.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
478
Places
420
How full
Full — 478 pupils against 420 places
Girls / boys
225 / 253
Overall absence
5%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
13%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
43%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
67%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
2

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
28

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
1
Busiest road nearby
A454

22,424 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
19

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Walsall Rail Station

1.3 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

2/10 Deprivation decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England.

1/10 Child poverty decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£183,500

postcode sector WS2 8 · 208 sales

Typical range
£125,750 to £252,212

middle half of sales

Detached
£311,701
Semi-detached
£227,000
Terraced
£139,500
Flat
£84,250

Homes around this school are cheaper than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
21%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
33%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
5%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
32%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
46%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
55%

England 62.7%

Social housing
24%

England 17%

Privately rented
20%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
40%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
8%

England 22.5%

No car
29%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Walsall 026B and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 2–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
Yes
Boarding
Day school
Trust
E-Act
Headteacher
Principal: Maxine Lathbury-Cox
Opened as this establishment
1 September 2012
Register status
Open
Local authority
Walsall
Ward
Pleck
Constituency
Walsall and Bloxwich
URN
138452

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

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Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Reception

1.30 2014/15: 1.14 first choices per place2015/16: 1.00 first choices per place2016/17: 0.82 first choices per place2017/18: 1.00 first choices per place2018/19: 0.85 first choices per place2019/20: 0.91 first choices per place2020/21: 0.94 first choices per place2021/22: 0.91 first choices per place2022/23: 1.05 first choices per place2023/24: 0.94 first choices per place2024/25: 0.96 first choices per place2025/26: 1.00 first choices per place2026/27: 1.03 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 42 48 1.14 83%
2015/16 36 36 1.00 100%
2016/17 33 27 0.82 100%
2017/18 52 52 1.00 100%
2018/19 41 35 0.85 100%
2019/20 43 39 0.91 100%
2020/21 32 30 0.94 100%
2021/22 47 43 0.91 100%
2022/23 60 63 1.05 94%
2023/24 51 48 0.94 100%
2024/25 52 50 0.96 100%
2025/26 59 59 1.00 98%
2026/27 59 61 1.03 93%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
Alumwell Junior SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 43% 0.3 mi
Alumwell Infant SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 — 0.3 mi
Birchills Church of England Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 37% 0.5 mi
Croft AcademyAcademy sponsor led No overall grade 48% 0.6 mi
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, WalsallVoluntary aided school Report card 2026 73% 0.7 mi
King Charles Primary SchoolCommunity school No overall grade 37% 0.7 mi
North Walsall Primary AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 52% 0.9 mi
Lodge Farm Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 48% 1 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 74%
Median of its 11 closest peers 51%
Walsall average 58.5%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
Marion Richardson Primary SchoolCommunity school London Outstanding 2024 53%
Widden Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Gloucester Requires improvement 2022 —
Leopold Primary SchoolCommunity school Brent Good 2022 47%
Birchfield Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Birmingham Good 2022 71%
Windmill L.E.A.D. AcademyAcademy sponsor led Nottingham No overall grade 51%
St Luke's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Wolverhampton No overall grade 75%
Lane End Primary SchoolFoundation school Leeds Good 2022 35%
St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Coventry Good 2023 47%
Essa Primary AcademyFree schools BOLTON No overall grade 35%
Staniland AcademyAcademy converter Boston No overall grade 67%
Westminster Church of England Primary AcademyAcademy converter Bradford Good 2023 43%
Tollgate Primary SchoolAcademy converter London Outstanding 2022 93%

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 138452; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 27 January 2026
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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