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Park Hall Infant Academy

PrimaryAges 3–7Academy

Walsall, WS5 3HF · Walsall local authority

Walsall’s School Grade B better than 64% of towns in England

Getting in
90/106
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
310 pupils
96% of its 322 places
Free school meals
8%
8 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Park Hall Infant Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • 85% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (90 of 106)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (WS5 3) sold for a median £375,000; Walsall’s is £210,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Park Hall Infant Academy?

85% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

106
families put it first for September 2026
90
places offered
85%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (37), 2020 (15), 2021 (46), 2022 (35), 2023 (12), 2025 (2), 2026 (16). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The Loriners Multi Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Walsall council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Walsall, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.50 per place
62% got their first choice
Park Hall Infant
1.18 per place
85% got their first choice
1.07 per place
88% got their first choice
1.03 per place
93% got their first choice
1.03 per place
97% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
96% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

311 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
3.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
52.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
8.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 46%Boys 54%
Its letter

No letter for Park Hall Infant Academy

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, November 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Park Hall Infant Academy

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in WS5 3, the school’s postcode sector

Walsall property prices →
£375,000
median sale, 304 sales in 36 months · Walsall £210,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K2010201520202025WS5 3Walsall
WS5 3Walsall

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£433K
Semi-detached
£325K
Terraced
£320K
Flat
£145K
WS5 3Walsall

Homes in WS5 3 sell for well over Walsall’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

18 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B−C−BB−AB−B−A+A−CDCCPark Hall Infant Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Walsall, WS5 3HF

Park Hall Infant Academy: common questions

How hard is it to get into Park Hall Infant Academy?

For September 2026, 106 families put Park Hall Infant Academy first and 90 of them were offered a place; 90 places were offered in all.

What is Park Hall Infant Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2022).

How much do houses cost near Park Hall Infant Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, WS5 3, sold for a median £375,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (304 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Walsall’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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