Oak Meadow Primary School

Oak Meadow Primary School is performing strongly overall. Inspectors found strong standard practice in achievement, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing. Pupils achieve above national averages in reading, writing and mathematics, including disadvantaged pupils, and they leave well prepared for the next stage. The school has a broad, well-sequenced curriculum, highly effective SEND inclusion, and a calm, respectful culture where pupils feel safe and valued. Safeguarding standards are met. The main area for further development is attendance, which is graded at expected standard. Leaders have improved systems and attendance is broadly in line with national figures, but persistent absence remains slightly above the national average and the school acknowledges there is more to do. The report's next steps focus on sustaining the upward trend in attendance by analysing patterns closely, acting promptly and working with families whose children are persistently absent. The inspection took place after significant change, including a new head of school, and Oak Meadow is part of St Bartholomew's CE Multi Academy Trust. The school has above-average free school meals eligibility and is located in an area of above-average deprivation, making the strong outcomes and inclusive practice notable. Overall, this is a high-performing school with one clear, continuing priority around attendance.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve very high standards, with attainment above national averages in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Phonics outcomes are high and pupils secure the foundations for confident, fluent reading.
• The curriculum is broad, ambitiously sequenced and consistently taught across the school.
• Early years provision gives children an excellent start and prepares them very well for Year 1.
• Inclusion is central to the school, and pupils with SEND make excellent progress from their starting points.
• Leadership, governance and trust oversight are highly effective and focused on pupils' learning and wellbeing.
• Personal development and wellbeing provision is impressively designed and prepares pupils well for life beyond school.
• Behaviour is calm, respectful and positive, and pupils feel safe and valued.
• Enrichment, pupil leadership roles and digital ambassador opportunities build confidence, responsibility and teamwork.

Areas for Improvement

• Attendance requires continued improvement so that absence rates, particularly persistent absence, continue to fall.
• Persistent absence remains slightly above the national average, and leaders need to sustain action with families to reduce it further.

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 Oak Meadow Primary School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.7% 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 Oak 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 Oak Meadow Primary School had 26.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.7% 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, 10.4% of pupils at Oak Meadow Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.2% 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 Oak Meadow Primary School received £6,840 and spent £6,762 for each of its 418 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £404,000 (£967 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of St Bartholomew'S Ce Multi Academy Trust, income was £6,606 and spending £6,502 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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Oak Meadow Primary School is part of St Bartholomew'S Ce Multi Academy Trust, which runs 16 schools. The nearest others:

• Abbey Primary School Walsall
• Christ Church Church of England Primary School Walsall
• Old Church Church of England C Primary School Wednesbury
• Little Bloxwich CofE VC Primary School Walsall
• Woodfield Primary School Wolverhampton
• St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School Wolverhampton
• St Benedict Biscop CofE Primary School Wolverhampton
• All Saints' CofE Primary School Wolverhampton
• Fairhaven Primary School Stourbridge
• Haughton St Giles CofE Primary Academy Stafford

What is Oak Meadow Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Oak Meadow Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Oak Meadow Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Oak Meadow Primary School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Oak Meadow Primary School have?

Oak Meadow Primary School has 412 pupils on roll.

What age range does Oak Meadow Primary School cover?

Oak Meadow Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 87% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Oak Meadow Primary School?

Oak Meadow Primary School is at Ryan Avenue, Ashmore Park, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV11 2QQ.