Meadowhead Junior School

Meadowhead Junior School is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating across all key areas such as quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. The school creates a welcoming and safe environment where pupils feel valued and supported. There is a strong emphasis on high expectations and aspirations for all students, with a notable sense of community among staff and pupils. The headteacher and her team have worked hard to improve the school since its last inspection, tackling previous weaknesses and fostering a culture of dedication among staff.

Strengths

• Pupils feel happy and safe at school.
• Staff have high expectations for all pupils.
• Pupils with SEND achieve well and are well supported.
• The school offers various engaging out-of-school activities.
• Safeguarding measures are effective and well managed.
• Strong leadership is evident from the headteacher and governors.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum in geography, history, and science is not well developed.
• Staff lack clarity and training on aiding struggling readers.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Meadowhead Junior School attended 93.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 23.1% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.3% of pupils at Meadowhead Junior School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Meadowhead Junior School had 16.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.2% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 23.4% of pupils at Meadowhead Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Meadowhead Junior School received £9,168 and spent £8,786 for each of its 201 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £125,000 (£621 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Meadowhead Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Meadowhead Junior School is Good, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was Meadowhead Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Meadowhead Junior School was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does Meadowhead Junior School have?

Meadowhead Junior School has 201 pupils on roll.

What age range does Meadowhead Junior School cover?

Meadowhead Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

What are Meadowhead Junior School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 40% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Meadowhead Junior School?

Meadowhead Junior School is at Anglesey Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 4QG.