Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery

Community school·Infant school Blackburn with Darwen·BB2 4TT

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

34 first choices, 41 places

First choices per place

0.83

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 41 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020220.9720230.9720240.9220250.832026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 160
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

44.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

20.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

31.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

6.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

24.5%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

17.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£9,184

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Meadowhead Junior School Blackburn · 0.1 mi 26.0 St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England Academy Blackburn · 0.5 mi 15.0 St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn Blackburn · 0.5 mi 48.1 Livesey Saint Francis' Church of England School Blackburn · 0.7 mi 42.5 Griffin Park Primary School Blackburn · 0.8 mi 53.4 Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary Blackburn · 0.8 mi 64.6 St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary School Blackburn · 0.9 mi 29.9 Longshaw Community Junior School Blackburn · 1.1 mi 50.6

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery is a primary school serving Blackburn with Darwen, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 160 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 34 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 17.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 45% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.