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.

Contested secondary schools in Walsall, 2026/27
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.

Contested primary schools in Walsall, 2026/27
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.