Meadowside Primary School, Kettering
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Meadowside Primary School creates a warm, caring environment where pupils feel safe and develop strong friendships with each other and staff. The school teaches early reading effectively, and has particularly strong pastoral support for pupils' emotional wellbeing. Pupils enjoy enrichment opportunities including educational visits and residential learning experiences.
Key Strengths
- Safeguarding is effective with an open culture where pupils feel safe and concerns are properly managed
- Early reading is taught consistently well, with effective support for pupils who find reading difficult
- Strong pastoral care and relationships - pupils feel safe, bullying is rare and dealt with effectively, and staff are developing expertise in supporting pupils' emotional wellbeing
Areas for Improvement
- Teaching quality is inconsistent across the school, particularly in writing and mathematics, meaning pupils do not achieve as well as they could
- Attendance of pupils with special educational needs has declined, and too many pupils arrive late, disrupting lessons
- Leaders do not monitor school provision with enough precision to spot problems or track whether training and support is working
- Provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities needs strengthening, with staff lacking thorough understanding of their needs
- Classroom behaviour expectations are not taught clearly or enforced consistently, leading to interruptions during lessons
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, concerns are actively identified and acted upon, and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
School clubs based on pupils' interests, educational visits to places of local, national and international interest, residential learning opportunities, local sport competitions, pupil ambassador roles
Meadowside Primary School is a federated primary school where safeguarding standards are met, but the quality of teaching and learning needs significant improvement. The school has experienced leadership changes and turbulence that have affected provision, though new leadership introduced in September 2025 is working to drive improvements.
At a Glance
15.6%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 68% to 75%. Maths has remained stable at around 65%. Writing has remained stable at around 72%.
Class Sizes
27.6
Avg class size
29.7
Infant (KS1)
29.0
KS2
14
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
104%
Over capacity
435 pupils
420 capacity
15 places over capacity
Area Demand Pressure - Kettering
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Kettering
Admissions Demand - North Northamptonshire
Places available
4,537
Applications
3,653
Got 1st preference
92.5%
Got preferred school
98.2%
Primary admissions across North Northamptonshire (2025/26)
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.51769%
Overall absence
13.46154%
Persistent absence
364
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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