Alternative provision free school · Walsall
The Ladder School
- Alternative provision
- Ages 13–18
- Sixth form
- Term dates checked
Term dates
This school's own term dates broadly match Walsall council's, so the council's dates are shown here. INSET days can differ, so check the school's calendar for those.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 3 July 2023. Overall: Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form
- Good
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Alternative provision free school
- Phase
- Alternative provision
- Ages
- 13–18
- Pupils
- 62 (capacity 120)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- THE MERCIAN TRUST
- Phone
- 01922285848
- Address
- 40 George Street, Walsall, WS1 1RS
- Website
- theladderschool.org
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.