Meadow Primary School
Primary · Ellesmere Port · CH66 4SZ
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 11 November 2025 · report published 11 January 2026
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419 pupils · 100% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 5.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 5.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.5% of pupils
- Website
- www.meadow.cheshire.sch.uk/
- URN
- 151417
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place59 places offered · 59 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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
- 11 November 2025: Expected standard
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.