Sunshine Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · 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 🔒
Sunshine Academy is a primary school in Walsall for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Walsall has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Sunshine 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
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as also happened at 45 of the 75 other Walsall primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 36 first-choice applications for 40 offers, which is 0.9 first choices per offer and the 13th lowest of 74 Walsall primary schools.
- Places ran out in 2014 and 2015, the earlier years with a published Reception outcome, and the last distance offered swung between those years.
- Of its pupils, 56.7% are eligible for free school meals. The middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Walsall is 51%.
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
- Blakenall Lane, Leamore, Walsall, WS3 1HF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Walsall
- Pupils on roll
- 150 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 36 first-preference applications, 40 offers in total, 36 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.
- Leamore Primary School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Field Road Academy 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Christ Church Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Goldsmith Primary Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rivers Primary Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- All Saints National Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Elmore Green Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Bloxwich 0.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published