Meadowside Community Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.799 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Meadowside Community Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Warrington for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Meadowside Community Primary and Nursery 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 | 0.799 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 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.799 miles, the 23rd shortest of 65 Warrington primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 1.13 miles.
- Reception's last distance moved further out from 2025 to 2026, its biggest move between years, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 23 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 26% met the 2024/25 expected standard in reading, writing and maths, lowest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 of the 8 nearest Warrington primary schools that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warrington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Clough Avenue, Longford, Warrington, WA2 9PH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 255 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 59.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy warm and caring relationships with each other and staff in this kind and welcoming school community.”
- “Pupils learn and play together in harmony.”
- “Children and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) in the specially resourced provision thrive in the caring atmosphere that staff have cultivated.”
To improve
- “However, it is too soon to see the full impact of this work.”
- “Where published outcomes are not as strong, or where there are residual gaps in learning, leaders have taken decisive action to tackle these areas.”
- “However, some of these pupils do not make as much progress as they should because they miss too much school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 May 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) | 26% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 23 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 Warrington.
- St Stephen's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Margaret's Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Warrington St Ann's Church of England Primary Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dallam Community Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Beamont Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Brook Acre Community Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Benedict's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published