Beacon Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Walsall
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Walsall Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Beacon Academy is a primary school in Walsall for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Walsall has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Beacon 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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 2026 every Reception applicant was offered a place, as at 45 of the 75 other Walsall primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception places ran out in both 2014 and 2015, the earlier years with a published outcome, and the figures swung sharply between those years.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 53 first-choice applications for 54 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- Of its pupils, 42% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 34.7% 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
- Davis Road, New Invention, Walsall, WV12 5HA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Walsall
- Pupils on roll
- 488 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 53 first-preference applications, 54 offers in total, 53 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.
- New Invention Infant School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- New Invention Learning Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Woodlands Academy of Learning 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Busill Jones Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Jubilee Academy Mossley 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Abbey Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pool Hayes Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rosedale Church of England C Infant School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published