State-fundedStudio schools · Walsall · WS1 1RL
Secondary with sixth form · ages 14–19
Walsall Studio School is a state-funded school in Walsall, teaching pupils aged 14 to 19.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | -1.092nd percentile | -1.211st percentile | -0.5812th percentile | -0.963rd percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 28.28th percentile | 35.515th percentile | 38.617th percentile | 34.112th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was -1.09 — well below average, the 2nd percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 1.09 of a grade per subject lower than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.
The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs -1.54 to -0.65. That sits entirely below zero, so the below-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has moved around a good deal across the years shown, from -1.21 to -0.58. The three-year average is the steadier number to judge it on.
Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.
| Grade 5+ in English & Maths | 4%11th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 2.078th percentile |
A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower starters | -1.00 | -1.49 | -0.38 | -0.96 |
| Middle starters | -1.04 | -0.93 | -0.44 | -0.80 |
| Higher starters | — | -2.24 | -1.81 | -2.03 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 25.6%0th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 67.0%0th percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is above the norm.
Not inspected, or no grade in the published data
Around half of schools currently have no grade here — usually recently opened schools, or academies whose last full inspection was under a predecessor URN.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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