Meadows First School
Offers reached between 0.5 and 1.88 miles in the last 5 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.
Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Worcestershire County Council offer-day figures, 2022 to 2026.
Summary
The key facts, in one place- Inspection
- Standards maintained, February 2025
- Getting in
- Last offer 0.56 mi (2026)
- Run by
- Aequalis Education Trust
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 4 to 9 · Mixed
Overview
Getting in
- We hold a catchment map for this school.
Quality
- Standards maintained
- We hold no published results for this school: it may be new, or have no pupils in the tested years.
Daily life
- Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 97 m
- 20 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 4 serious)
- Air: nitrogen dioxide 8.6 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.8 (1 km square, background level)
- Absence and suspension figures are not published for this school (DfE covers state schools only).
Who runs it
- Aequalis Education Trust, with 5 schools
- Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 April 2026
- Replaced Meadows First School (URN 116662)
- We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.
Getting in
How far offers reached
How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →
Offer day, year by year
| Entry | Year | Places | Applications | Offered | Refused | Last distance (miles) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reception | 2026 | 60 | — | — | 32 | 0.56 |
| Reception | 2025 | 60 | — | — | 51 | 0.5 |
| Reception | 2024 | 60 | — | — | 14 | 0.57 |
| Reception | 2023 | 60 | — | — | 52 | 1.88 |
| Reception | 2022 | 60 | — | — | 48 | 0.67 |
| Reception | 2021 | 60 | — | — | 56 | 0.64 |
| Reception | 2020 | 60 | — | — | 60 | 0.55 |
Source: Council offer-day figures: Worcestershire County Council, 2020 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.
Results
Inspections
| Date | Kind | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 12 February 2025 | Ungraded visit | Standards maintained |
Source: Ofsted, 2025.
Daily life
Stops nearby
| Kind | Nearest (metres, straight line) |
|---|---|
| bus | 97 |
Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.
Road collisions within 500 m
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 |
Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 4 serious and 0 fatal in all; 9 involved a pedestrian, 5 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.
Air quality
| Pollutant | Annual mean (µg/m³) | Year |
|---|---|---|
| NO2 | 8.6 | 2024 |
| PM10 | 11.1 | 2024 |
| PM25 | 6.8 | 2024 |
Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.
Who runs it
Who runs it
- Aequalis Education Trust, with 5 schools
- Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 April 2026
- Replaced Meadows First School (URN 116662)
- We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.
Area
Homes in reach of this schoolLook up any home near here: its sales, an open-data valuation, and which schools it keeps in reach.Search homes →Sources
- Council offer-day figures: Worcestershire County Council
- DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
- DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
- DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
- Ofsted
- School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
- How we check these figures: How we know
More in schools in Bromsgrove and the Worcestershire league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
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