Meadowbank Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Manchester, Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.616 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Meadowbank Primary School is a primary school in Manchester, Wigan for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 November 2023. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Meadowbank 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 | 0.616 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 8 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 0.616 miles, further than in 2015; every applicant was offered a place in 8 of the 16 years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 31 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 26 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families (16%) were not offered a place.
- 49.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 36.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wigan.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wigan schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Formby Avenue, Atherton, Manchester, M46 0HX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 220 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 November 2023
Strengths
- “This is a calm and happy school.”
- “Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), feel safe because of the positive relationships that they have with staff and their many friends.”
- “They know that they can speak with staff if they are ever worried about life at home or school.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, staff do not help pupils well enough to commit some of what they have been taught to their long-term memory.”
- “The unvalidated outcomes for pupils’ attainment in reading in Year 6 in 2023 were significantly below average.”
- “Some pupils in upper key stage 2 do not have a welldeveloped knowledge of different authors’ works, even though staff share with them a wide range of literature.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 January 2024 (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) | 70% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 26 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 Wigan.
- St Richard's Roman Catholic Primary School Atherton 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Atherton St George's CofE Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Philip's CofE Primary School, Atherton 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Chowbent Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Parklee Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Michael's CofE Primary School, Howe Bridge 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart RC Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hindsford CofE Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published