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Delves Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Academy
Botany Road, Delves, Walsall WS5 4PU · delvesinfantschool.co.uk · 01922 720754
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Outstanding
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2022
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 335
- 65 over 270 places · 124%
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 23.5%
- First language not English
- 68.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 89 families put the school first and 89 places were offered; 91% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 89 | 89 | 1 | 91% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 86 | 100 | 1.2▲ | 84% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 88 | 88 | 1 | 99% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 90 | 101 | 1.1▲ | 88% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 91 | 94 | 1▲ | 87% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 2 March 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Delves Infant School was: School remains Outstanding.
- Outcome
- Remains Outstanding
- Inspected
- 1 Mar 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 104150)
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Feb 2016
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 104150), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Feb 2016Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 104150)
Sept 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 104150)