Contested schools in Walsall
These are the Walsall schools that turned first-choice families away in at least one of the last three years — either because more families named them first than they had places, or because they refused families who named them first anyway. Figures shown are for 2026/27. Demand is not a forecast: an oversubscribed school turns more families away, which is not the same as their appeals succeeding more often.
Appeal success rates for Walsall
Secondary schools (13)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Mary's Grammar School | 178 | 367 | 2.06 |
| Walsall Academy | 202 | 373 | 1.85 |
| Queen Mary's High School | 149 | 263 | 1.77 |
| Barr Beacon School | 264 | 333 | 1.26 |
| St Francis of Assisi Catholic College | 188 | 235 | 1.25 |
| The Streetly Academy | 258 | 288 | 1.12 |
| Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy | 256 | 277 | 1.08 |
| St Thomas More Catholic School, Willenhall | 238 | 253 | 1.06 |
| Brownhills Ormiston Academy | 147 | 129 | 0.88 |
| Grace Academy Darlaston | 206 | 181 | 0.88 |
| Blue Coat Church of England Academy | 154 | 130 | 0.84 |
| Aldridge School - A Science College | 259 | 214 | 0.83 |
| Bloxwich Academy | 180 | 139 | 0.77 |
Primary schools (33)
Primary schools are listed here as figures rather than pages. Most refusals at the Reception intake are infant class size cases, where a panel can only act on three narrow grounds and fewer than one in ten appeals succeeds — so the honest thing to publish is the data, not a page inviting an appeal.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Streetly | 30 | 51 | 1.70 |
| St Mary's The Mount Catholic Primary School | 30 | 45 | 1.50 |
| Rushall Primary School | 29 | 42 | 1.45 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Darlaston | 30 | 43 | 1.43 |
| St Mary of the Angels Catholic Primary School | 29 | 41 | 1.41 |
| St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| St Giles Church of England Primary School | 60 | 75 | 1.25 |
| Park Hall Infant Academy | 90 | 106 | 1.18 |
| Leamore Primary School | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Meadow View Academy | 59 | 69 | 1.17 |
| Moorcroft Wood Academy | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| North Walsall Primary Academy | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Rivers Primary Academy | 59 | 67 | 1.14 |
| Whetstone Field Primary School | 29 | 33 | 1.14 |
| Butts Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Lower Farm Primary School | 59 | 63 | 1.07 |
| Croft Academy | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Reedswood E-ACT Academy | 59 | 61 | 1.03 |
| Goldsmith Primary Academy | 60 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Kings Hill Primary School | 60 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Bentley West Primary School | 49 | 49 | 1 |
| Delves Infant School | 89 | 89 | 1 |
| Elmore Green Primary School | 45 | 45 | 1 |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | 22 | 22 | 1 |
| Walsall Wood School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Alumwell Infant School | 82 | 80 | 0.98 |
| Abbey Primary School | 26 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Radleys Primary School | 24 | 23 | 0.96 |
| Watling Street Primary School | 25 | 24 | 0.96 |
| Castlefort Academy | 29 | 27 | 0.93 |
| St Michael's Church of England C Primary School | 59 | 55 | 0.93 |
| Cooper and Jordan Church of England Primary School | 60 | 55 | 0.92 |
| Pinfold Street Primary School | 49 | 45 | 0.92 |
Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers, school-level file, 2026/27. Appeal outcomes are not published for individual schools — how we source and calculate the figures.