Hall Meadow Primary School

Hall Meadow Primary is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating across all areas of inspection, including education quality, behavior, personal development, leadership, and early years provision. The school is noted for its inclusive environment, with pupils expressing that they feel safe and supported. There is strong ambition among leadership to ensure that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), are well catered for in their learning, which is complemented by caring support for emotional and social development.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy warm relationships with adults and each other.
• Leaders have high ambitions for all pupils to achieve.
• Curriculum is ambitious and well planned in most subjects.
• Teachers present information and provide clear explanations effectively.
• Pupils make good progress and develop confidence in reading.
• Strong support for pupils' emotional and social needs.
• Children in Reception get off to a good start.
• Well-planned personal, social, and health education curriculum.
• Effective safeguarding procedures in place.

Areas for Improvement

• In some foundation subjects, assessment practices have not been fully developed.
• Teachers do not consistently check pupils' understanding of core knowledge and vocabulary.

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 Hall Meadow Primary School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.6% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Hall Meadow Primary 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 Hall Meadow Primary School had 23.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 55.2% 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, 11.1% of pupils at Hall Meadow Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.4% 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 2024–25 Hall Meadow Primary School received £5,769 and spent £5,534 for each of its 210 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £413,000 (£1,968 per pupil).

Across all 12 schools of Inmat, income was £6,569 and spending £6,333 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Kettering · North Northamptonshire local authority: places and applications

Hall Meadow Primary School is part of Inmat, which runs 13 schools. The nearest others:

• Kettering Park Junior Academy Kettering
• Kettering Park Infant Academy Kettering
• Rothwell Victoria Infant School Kettering
• Rothwell Junior School Kettering
• Little Harrowden Community Primary School Wellingborough
• Wollaston Primary School Wellingborough
• Standens Barn Primary School Northampton
• Kingsley Primary School Northampton
• The Abbey Primary School Northampton
• Ashby Fields Primary School Daventry

What is Hall Meadow Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hall Meadow Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2023.

When was Hall Meadow Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Hall Meadow Primary School was last inspected in January 2023.

How many pupils does Hall Meadow Primary School have?

Hall Meadow Primary School has 208 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hall Meadow Primary School cover?

Hall Meadow Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Hall Meadow Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Hall Meadow Primary School?

Hall Meadow Primary School is at Packer Road, Lake Avenue, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 7RP.