Palfrey Infant School
Primary · Walsall · WS1 4HY
Requires improvement
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Quality of education: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes
Inspected 11 October 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
310 pupils · 86% of 360 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 37.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.palfreyinfant.co.uk
- URN
- 151660
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.96 first-choice applications per place73 places offered · 70 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Sessions missed (overall absence)
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Pupils per qualified teacher
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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.