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Blue Coat Church of England Aided Infant School

Primary school · Voluntary aided school · ages 3 to 7 · Mixed

Hanch Place, Walsall, WS1 3AF

  • Pupils314
  • Ages3 to 7
  • Latest Ofsted12 Oct 2022
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.

Ungraded inspection · 12 Oct 2022

Outcome: School remains Good. An ungraded inspection checks whether a school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection; it doesn’t give new grades.

Ungraded inspection · report published 28 Nov 2022

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Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.

Results

No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.

Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.

Pupils and attendance

Pupils
314 (capacity 296)
160 girls, 154 boys
Eligible for free school meals
37.5% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)

Pupils with SEN support

Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

2024/25

This school
10.7%

Pupils with an EHC plan

An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.

2024/25

This school
6.6%

Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years

2024/25

This school
40.7%

First language not English

This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.

2024/25

This school
56.5%

Attendance

Overall absence

The share of possible mornings and afternoons missed, for any reason (authorised or not).

2024/25

This school
6.7%

Persistent absence

Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions.

2024/25

This school
20.7%

How absence is measured

Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.

About the school

Type
Voluntary aided school (Local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary
Boys, girls or mixed
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Diocese
Diocese of Lichfield
Nursery
Has Nursery Classes
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Special needs catered for
SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Local authority
Walsall
Parliamentary constituency
Walsall and Bloxwich
URN
104231 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

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Admissions

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