Voluntary aided school · Secondary
Willenhall · WV14 7BL · Walsall
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 135956
Grace Academy Darlaston
Academy sponsor led · Wednesbury · WS10 8QJ
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–19
Pupils
1,059
Local authority
Walsall
Age range
Ages 11–19
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–19, in Wednesbury, Walsall, 1,059 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 56.2%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 135956
Location
- Address
- Herberts Park Road, Darlaston
- Postcode
- WS10 8QJ
- Town
- Wednesbury
- County
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Walsall
- District
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton South East
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,059
- Boys / girls
- 547 / 512
- School capacity
- 1,075
- Capacity fill
- 1,059 / 1,075 (99%)
- Free school meals
- 56.2%
- FSM pupils
- 558
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: TOVE LEARNING TRUST
- Academy trust
- TOVE LEARNING TRUST
- Sponsor
- Tove Learning Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Henry Holland
- Telephone
- 01215683300
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-04-21
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 42.1
- Progress 8
- -0.0
- English & maths grade 5+
- 30%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 61%
- EBacc entry
- 9%
- EBacc APS
- 3.5