Salisbury Primary School
General Information
- Address: Salisbury Street, Darlaston, Wednesbury, WS10 8BQ – View on map
- Phone: 01216674066
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Nin Matharu
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 24 families put it first for 25 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 157
- % eligible for free school meals: 53.8%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Walsall average)
- English as an additional language: 56% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 45.5% a year (Walsall 14.6%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 68% moved to another school, 32% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Walsall: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 5 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 4 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Walsall, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Speech, language and communication 16 places · 5 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 12.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Multi-sensory impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 67% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points above the Walsall average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 62% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 62%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 74% · Writing 76% · Maths 71% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 104
- Based on: 42 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 27th of 61 junior and primary schools in the area
- =23Park Hall Junior Academy68%
- =23Pheasey Park Farm Primary School and Early Years Centre68%
- =27Salisbury Primary School67%
- =27St Francis Catholic Primary School67%
- #29St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall66%
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33rd of 50 primary schools in Walsall for Ofsted rating
- #31Rushall Primary SchoolGood
- #32Ryders Hayes SchoolGood
- #33Salisbury Primary SchoolGood
- #34St Bernadette's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #35St Francis Catholic Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,255 (2024-25)
23rd of 56 primary schools in Walsall for spending per pupil
- #21Walsall Wood School£7,298
- #22Greenfield Primary School£7,272
- #23Salisbury Primary School£7,255
- #24St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Bloxwich£7,248
- #25Kings Hill Primary School£7,240
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