Avanti Meadows Primary School

Avanti Meadows Primary School has shown strong overall performance since its opening in September 2021, achieving good ratings in areas such as education quality, behaviour, management, and early years provision, with outstanding personal development. The school fosters a supportive and inclusive environment where pupils develop respect and tolerance towards diversity. While most students demonstrate high standards and enthusiasm in their learning, certain challenges remain in ensuring consistent teaching effectiveness across all subjects, particularly for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). The school recognizes areas for improvement, particularly around monitoring SEND support and enhancing the consistency of teaching expertise.

Strengths

• Strong commitment to high-quality teaching and staff training.
• Inclusive environment for pupils with SEND.
• Robust support for reading with positive pupil engagement.
• Wide range of extracurricular activities helping to develop pupils' talents.
• Positive attitudes and behaviour among pupils.
• Successful integration of spiritual values into the curriculum.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent teaching effectiveness in a few subjects and classes.
• Some pupils with SEND are not receiving adequately matched support.
• Lack of robust monitoring of progress for pupils with SEND.

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 Avanti Meadows Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.2% 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, 2.7% of pupils at Avanti Meadows 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 Avanti Meadows Primary School had 21.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 31.1% 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, 14.0% of pupils at Avanti Meadows Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.1% 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 2024–25 Avanti Meadows Primary School received £8,717 and spent £9,928 for each of its 252 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £358,000 (£1,422 per pupil).

Across all 12 schools of Avanti Schools Trust, income was £7,834 and spending £7,941 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 Bishop'S Stortford · Hertfordshire local authority: places and applications

Avanti Meadows Primary School is part of Avanti Schools Trust, which runs 12 schools. The nearest others:

• Avanti Grange Secondary School Bishops Stortford
• Avanti Brook Primary School Bishops Stortford
• Avanti Court Primary School Barkingside
• Krishna Avanti Primary School Edgware
• Avanti House School Stanmore
• Avanti House Primary School Stanmore
• Krishna Avanti Primary School Croydon
• Krishna Avanti Primary School Leicester
• Avanti Fields School Leicester
• Avanti Park School Frome

What is Avanti Meadows Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Avanti Meadows Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Avanti Meadows Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Avanti Meadows Primary School was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Avanti Meadows Primary School have?

Avanti Meadows Primary School has 315 pupils on roll.

What age range does Avanti Meadows Primary School cover?

Avanti Meadows Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Avanti Meadows Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

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

Where is Avanti Meadows Primary School?

Avanti Meadows Primary School is at Farnham Road, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 1FQ.