Meadow Bank Community School
General Information
- Address: Fearnville Drive, Bradford, BD4 8DX – View on map
- Phone: 01274664661
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Chantel Horsbrough
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 21 families put it first for 24 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 154
- % eligible for free school meals: 58.3%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 33% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 38.5% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 43% moved to another school, 57% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Bradford: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 17 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 7 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Bradford, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 9.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 33.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 20.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 25 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 19 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 14 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Requires improvement 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 37% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 23 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 45% · Writing 51% · Maths 49% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 34%
- Average test scores: reading 99, maths 100
- Based on: 53 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
Year 6 SATs: 150th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =147Ley Top Primary School40%
- #149Long Lee Primary School39%
- #150Meadow Bank Community School37%
- #151Oakworth Primary School35%
- =152Crossley Hall Academy33%
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View full Ofsted inspection report
123rd of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #121Wycliffe CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #122Eastburn Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #123Meadow Bank Community SchoolRequires improvement
- #124Myrtle Park PrimaryRequires improvement
- #125Our Lady and St Brendan's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,564 (2024-25)
33rd of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #31Atlas Community Primary School£7,611
- #32St. Clare's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy£7,590
- #33Meadow Bank Community School£7,564
- #34Hoyle Court Primary School£7,537
- #35Green Lane Primary School£7,448
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