Oakwood School
- Special
- Academy special converter
- Ages 3 to 15
URN 151525 · Walsall · THE MERCIAN TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Ungraded inspection
5 June 2024“School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next”
“S5 Next” is Ofsted’s note that the school’s next inspection will be a graded one.
This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.
An ungraded inspection checks that the school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection. It does not give a new grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Teachers
Against Walsall and England, special schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/267.2
- Walsall
- 7.1
- England
- 7.3
0.1 lower than England.
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/25Not publishedNot published for this school
- Walsall
- 5.6 days
- England
- 5.0 days
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
See this school in the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool
About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 272
- Capacity
- 150
- Type
- Academy special converter
- Phase
- Special
- Age range
- 3 to 15
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- THE MERCIAN TRUST
- Opened
- 1 June 2025
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills
- Special educational needs provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 4 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Druids Walk, Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 9JS
Website: www.oakwood.walsall.sch.uk
Telephone: 01543452040
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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