All Saints National Academy

About All Saints National Academy

All Saints National Academy is a Church of England primary school in Walsall, West Midlands, serving 228 pupils aged 5 to 11. Within the local authority’s 85 primary schools, it ranks 58th on the key stage 2 expected standard measure, placing it in the bottom half of the LA table. For context, the highest-performing peers in Walsall include St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Streetly, Croft Academy, and St Mary of the Angels Catholic Primary School. The nearest school rated Outstanding by Ofsted is New Invention Learning Academy, 2.7 km away. All Saints itself holds a Good rating from its most recent graded inspection in April 2024, a notable improvement from its previous Requires Improvement judgement in January 2022. Under headteacher Matthew Seex, the school has moved from a 3 in every category to a 2 across all areas — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership, and early years provision all now rated Good.

Academically, the school’s key stage 2 results for 2023/24 show a mixed picture. Just 24% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, well below the Walsall LA average of 61%. In reading, 62% met the expected standard and 18% reached the higher standard. Maths saw 42% at expected and 7% at higher. Writing was weaker, with 42% at expected and none at the higher level. Average scaled scores were 104 in reading and 101 in maths. The school’s ranking score of 24 places it in the bottom 50 nationally and bottom 100 in the West Midlands region. Progress scores are not available in the data, so it is unclear how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points. The high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals — 60.1% — is a significant contextual factor that may affect these outcomes.

The school operates below its capacity of 315, with 228 pupils on roll, and was oversubscribed for 2025/26 entry: 35 applications for 17 places, with 16 first-preference offers. Facilities include music rooms, art studios, a sports hall, gymnasium, ICT suite, dining hall, and a chapel. Sports offered include athletics, cricket, netball, dance, tennis, swimming, and rounders, while clubs range from coding and science club to drama, chess, and film club. SEND provision is broad, covering dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. This school may suit families in Walsall who value a faith-based setting with strong pastoral support and a wide range of extracurricular activities, though they should weigh the below-average academic outcomes against the high level of pupil disadvantage.

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