Pelsall Village School

Pelsall Village School is a welcoming, caring school where pupils feel safe and well supported. Safeguarding standards are met, attendance and behaviour are at the expected standard, and personal development and wellbeing are clear strengths: pupils attend well, behave positively, trust staff, and benefit from a broad enrichment and pastoral programme. The school includes a resourced provision for up to 16 pupils with autism and speech, language and communication needs, and it serves a community with well above average free school meals and above average deprivation. However, pupils do not achieve as well as they should by the end of Year 6. Attainment in writing, mathematics, spelling, punctuation and grammar, and phonics is below national figures, with gaps in foundational knowledge and weak transcription limiting progress. Teaching is not consistently effective, errors are not always corrected quickly, and adaptations for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils are not precise enough. Early years provision also needs attention because activities lack clear learning intentions and assessment is not used sharply enough. Leaders have identified the right priorities, but improvement has been too slow and is not yet embedded consistently. The main priorities are to improve attainment and foundational skills, embed consistent curriculum delivery particularly in reading, writing and early years, strengthen assessment and adaptation in lessons, and monitor the impact of actions more rigorously so that improvements are swift and consistent across the school.

Strengths

• Safeguarding standards are met; pupils feel safe and know staff will respond to concerns.
• Attendance and behaviour are at the expected standard, with pupils generally behaving well and attending broadly in line with national averages.
• Personal development and wellbeing are a clear strength, supported by a broad programme and strong pastoral care.
• Pupils benefit from wide enrichment, leadership roles, community projects and learning about safety, faiths and British values.
• Staff know pupils well and provide caring, responsive support.
• Children in early years settle quickly and benefit from warm interactions and practical learning experiences.
• Leaders provide useful professional development, and staff feel valued and supported.
• Governors meet their statutory duties and use information to support and challenge leaders effectively.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils' attainment by the end of Year 6 is below national in writing, mathematics, spelling, punctuation and grammar, and combined reading, writing and mathematics.
• Phonics outcomes are below national and pupils' progress remains uneven.
• Gaps in pupils' foundational knowledge do not close quickly enough.
• Teaching is not consistently well delivered, and staff do not always correct pupils' errors quickly enough.
• Adaptations for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils are not consistently precise or effective.
• The early years curriculum is not delivered effectively; activities lack clear learning intentions and assessment is not used precisely enough.
• Disadvantaged pupils' outcomes and gaps remain significant, particularly in writing.
• Leaders' actions have not secured improvement quickly enough because impact monitoring lacks sufficient rigour.
• Improvements are not embedded consistently across the school, and pupils' readiness for secondary school is reduced.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Pelsall Village School attended 93.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 18.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.8% of pupils at Pelsall Village School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Pelsall Village School had 17.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 19.7% of pupils at Pelsall Village School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Pelsall Village School received £8,395 and spent £8,341 for each of its 254 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £168,000 (£661 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Pelsall Village School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Pelsall Village School is Needs attention, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Pelsall Village School last inspected by Ofsted?

Pelsall Village School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Pelsall Village School have?

Pelsall Village School has 259 pupils on roll.

What age range does Pelsall Village School cover?

Pelsall Village School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Pelsall Village School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 18% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Pelsall Village School?

Pelsall Village School is at Old Town Lane, Pelsall, Walsall, West Midlands, WS3 4NJ.