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Spring Meadow Primary School & Nursery

Primary · Harwich · CO12 4LB

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Good

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.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 28 February 2024

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At a glance

354 pupils · 93% of 382 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
2–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
54.5% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.springmeadow.essex.sch.uk
URN
152157

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

33 places offered · 33 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)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
8.7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
30.6%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
18.2
England 18.5

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.

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