Lift Offa's Mead
Primary · Chepstow · NP16 7DT
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 4 October 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
128 pupils · 61% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 27.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 32.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 20.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.9% of pupils
- URN
- 138786
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.89 first-choice applications per place9 places offered · 8 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
16 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 4 October 2022: Good
- 23 November 2021: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 25 May 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 4
- 16 March 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 3
- 17 December 2019: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 25 April 2019: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 11 December 2018: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.