Croft Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Walsall
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.92 miles
Published by Walsall Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Croft Academy is a primary school in Walsall for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 October 2024. Walsall has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Croft 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 | 0.92 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| 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 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.92 miles away, the 8th longest of the 23 Walsall primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- There were 31 first-choice applications for 30 Reception offers in 2026; 30 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (3%) was not offered a place.
- Of its pupils, 62.6% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 41.4% 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
- Croft Street, Walsall, WS2 8JE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Walsall
- Pupils on roll
- 246 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 62.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils feel proud to be members of Croft Academy.”
- “They show respectful behaviour and are responsible for making their school a nice place to attend.”
- “Kind and caring relationships are commonplace.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the school has only recently made changes to the curriculum.”
- “This means that the new knowledge and skills it intends pupils to learn are not yet improving what pupils know and can do.”
- “The school’s provision for pupils’ personal development is not yet fully effective.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 60% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Birchills Church of England Community Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- North Walsall Primary Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Butts Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Reedswood E-ACT Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alumwell Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Alumwell Junior School 0.9 mi Good
- St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Improved significantly Last distance published