Dairy Meadow Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Southall, Ealing
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Ealing Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dairy Meadow Primary School is a primary school in Southall, Ealing for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2023. Ealing has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Dairy Meadow Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 47 of the 64 other Ealing primary schools with a published outcome; there were 39 first-choice applications for 39 offers.
- In 2024/25, 82% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%); 18% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths figure was the 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Ealing that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Ealing schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Swift Road, Dairy Meadow Primary School, Southall, UB2 4RP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Ealing
- Pupils on roll
- 337 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are looked after in this school.”
- “Staff know them well and they respond to pupils’ needs promptly and effectively.”
- “Pupils are confident to speak to any adult if they have any concerns.”
To improve
- “The school is working hard to ensure that pupils’ achievement is as strong across all areas of the curriculum.”
- “In a few subjects, however, at times, teaching does not ensure that pupils have a secure understanding of the knowledge required to make sense of new learning.”
- “Sometimes, however, their understanding of subject-specific vocabulary is not as clear as it should be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 82% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 39 first-preference applications, 39 offers in total, 39 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Ealing.
- Havelock Primary School, Nursery & Arp 0.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anselm's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Three Bridges Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Wolf Fields Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Clifton Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Khalsa Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hambrough Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Beaconsfield Primary and Nursery School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published