High Meadow Community School

High Meadow Community School has been judged as good overall, significantly improving since its last outstanding inspection 13 years ago. The school shows strengths in areas such as behavior, personal development, and effective leadership. Students demonstrate a strong eagerness to learn and feel safe and supported, reflecting the warm relationships built within the school community. With a well-implemented reading program and effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, the focus remains on ensuring that all pupils achieve their best. However, some subject areas still require development to ensure a consistently high-quality education across the whole curriculum.

Strengths

• Pupils exhibit a strong eagerness to learn
• Highly skilled teaching in phonics
• Effective support for SEND pupils
• Strong emphasis on reading and literacy
• Positive behavior and respectful attitudes among pupils
• New leadership is responsive to improvement opportunities
• Strong community relationships with parents and pupils

Areas for Improvement

• Some subject areas lack finalised curriculum plans

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 High Meadow Community School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.6% 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, 3.6% of pupils at High Meadow Community 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 High Meadow Community School had 19.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.0% 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, 6.6% of pupils at High Meadow Community School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.1% 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 High Meadow Community School received £7,868 and spent £8,173 for each of its 196 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £0 (-£2 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 High Meadow Community School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for High Meadow Community School is Good, from an inspection in December 2023.

When was High Meadow Community School last inspected by Ofsted?

High Meadow Community School was last inspected in December 2023.

How many pupils does High Meadow Community School have?

High Meadow Community School has 196 pupils on roll.

What age range does High Meadow Community School cover?

High Meadow Community School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are High Meadow Community School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 47% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is High Meadow Community School?

High Meadow Community School is at High Meadow Community School, Norton Road, Coleshill, Warwickshire, B46 1ES.