Meadow Farm Community Primary School

About Meadow Farm Community Primary School

Meadow Farm Community Primary School in Derby holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across both its most recent inspections. In its 2023 graded inspection, the school received Good marks across every category: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The most telling academic metric is the Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard, where 55% of pupils met the benchmark. That figure exactly matches the Derby local authority average for primary schools, placing Meadow Farm 27th out of 58 similar schools in the area. While this puts it in the bottom half of the LA ranking, it is worth noting that only five of the 74 primary schools in Derby are rated Outstanding, so Good is a solid and common outcome here. The school’s ranking score of 55 places it in the bottom 50% nationally, but the context of a high-needs intake matters.

Digging deeper into the 2023/24 KS2 results, the picture is more nuanced than the headline figure suggests. In maths, 68% of pupils reached the expected standard and the average score was 105, which is above the national baseline of 100. Reading saw 64% at expected with an average score of 103, and writing also hit 68% at expected. However, only 5% of pupils achieved the higher standard in reading, writing and maths combined, and the higher-standard percentages for individual subjects were 23% in reading, 23% in maths and 18% in writing. Progress scores are not available in the data, so it is difficult to say how much value the school adds relative to starting points. The school has a very high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 54.7%, which is well above the national average and likely influences overall attainment figures.

Meadow Farm is a smaller-than-average primary with 169 pupils against a capacity of 284, and it offers nursery provision for children from age three. The school is oversubscribed for Reception places in 2025/26, with 35 applications for 15 places and all 15 first-preference offers accepted, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.33. Facilities include art studios, music rooms, an ICT suite and a dining hall, and the sports offering covers netball, rounders, cross country, dance and swimming. Clubs include coding, chess and a book club. The school has identified SEND provisions for moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a school that serves a community with significant socio-economic challenges and appears to be delivering broadly average outcomes in that context, making it a realistic choice for local families who value a stable Good-rated setting with a wide range of activities.

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