1Beacon Academy
Walsall · ages 2 to 11 · URN151995
488 pupils / 448 at Throckley Primary School2025/26 · Academic year
Add to comparison- Overall effectiveness: Outstanding
- Quality of education: Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding
- Personal development: Outstanding
- Leadership and management: Outstanding
- Safeguarding is effective: Yes
- Early years: Outstanding
- Free school meals: 0.9 percentage points lower
- First language other than English: 0.9 percentage points lower
- SEND: 2.98 percentage points higher
- 40 more pupils
Sources, Ofsted & match details
- Graded inspection (previous framework) · inspected 27 February 2024 · published 18 April 2024 · recorded under URN 131580 · monthly file dated 30 September 2026
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding; Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding; Safeguarding is effective: Yes; Early years: Outstanding
- Ungraded inspection (previous framework) · inspected 10 November 2022 · published 15 January 2023 · recorded under URN 131580 · monthly file dated 30 September 2026
Outcome: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Matching score and calculation
Score 0.00046. A lower score means more similar pupil context. It is not a school rating or a percentage.
- FSM eligible (current eligibility): difference 0.9 percentage points; weight 45%; contribution 0.00405.
- First language other than English: difference 0.9 percentage points; weight 25%; contribution 0.00225.
- SEN support and EHC plans (derived percentage): difference 2.98 percentage points; weight 20%; contribution 0.00596.
- Total pupils: difference 40 pupils; weight 10%; contribution 0.00820.
- region: no matching bonus; contribution 0.00000.
- faith: same published context; contribution -0.01000.
- governance: same published context; contribution -0.01000.