Park Hall Infant Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Walsall
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.497 miles
Published by Walsall Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2014–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Park Hall Infant Academy is a primary school in Walsall for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 November 2022. Walsall has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Park Hall Infant Academy catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.497 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2015 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2014 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last Reception child offered a place lived 0.497 miles away, the 5th shortest of 23 Walsall primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception entry, the 2026 last distance was nearer the school than in 2014, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- For Reception entry in 2026, there were 106 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 90 offers went to first-choice families and 16 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 7.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Walsall.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Walsall schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Park Hall Road, Walsall, WS5 3HF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Walsall
- Pupils on roll
- 310 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 November 2022
Strengths
- “Key stage 1 pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) achieve well in most subjects.”
- “They attain consistently strong outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics.”
- “They are keen to do the job well and make a difference to their school.”
To improve
- “However, staff do not plan for, and seize enough, opportunities to promote and develop children’s language.”
- “However, not all subject leaders have given enough thought to the small building blocks of knowledge that need to be in place from Nursery through to Year 2.”
- “Where the intended content is less clear, teachers struggle to home in on the key things to teach or the best way to teach something.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 106 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 90 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Walsall.
- Park Hall Junior Academy 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Mary's The Mount Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whitehall Junior Community School 0.9 mi Good
- Delves Infant School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Delves Junior School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Whitehall Nursery and Infant Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blue Coat Church of England Aided Junior School 1.2 mi Standards maintained
- Blue Coat Church of England Aided Infant School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published