Palfrey Junior School
Primary · Walsall · WS1 4AH
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 March 2026 · report published 10 May 2026
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359 pupils · 100% of 360 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 50.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 92.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.2% of pupils
- URN
- 104160
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
87 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 March 2026: Needs attention
- 12 January 2022: Good
- 7 March 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 14 December 2017: Requires improvement
- 25 May 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 1 December 2015: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.