Primary
Meadowhead Junior School
Anglesey Street, Blackburn, BB2 4QG
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 201 of 240 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.4
- All staff (FTE)
- 22.2
- Pupils per adult
- 9.6
- Pupils
- 212
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected January 2025
Some aspects not as strong
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
SafeguardingMet
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
40%
24 points below the Blackburn average (64% across 49 schools)
102.0
3.3 below the Blackburn average (105.3 across 49 schools)
42nd of 49 by our score, among the primary schools in Blackburn we can score - 54 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 101 |
| Average reading score | 102 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 40% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 54% |
| 23/24 | 45% |
| 24/25 | 40% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 102.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 102.0 |
| 23/24 | 100.0 |
| 24/25 | 101.0 |
Anglesey Street, Blackburn, BB2 4QG
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Blackburn with Darwen admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Jason Newsham
- Address
- Anglesey Street, Blackburn, BB2 4QG
- Telephone
- 01254209871
Other primary schools nearby
- Meadowhead Community Infant School and NurseryNot enough data
- St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England Academy4.1/10
- St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn6.0/10
- Livesey Saint Francis' Church of England School5.9/10
- Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary8.6/10
- Griffin Park Primary School6.7/10