Academy sponsor led · Secondary
Oldbury · B69 2HE · Sandwell
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenURN 132231
The Meadows School
Community special school · Oldbury · B69 3BU
Age range
Ages 11–19
Pupils
262
Local authority
Sandwell
Age range
Ages 11–19
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community special school, Ages 11–19, in Oldbury, Sandwell, 262 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, special school. Free school meals: 57.8%. SEN provision includes: SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability….
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Overview
- School type
- Community special school
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 132231
Location
- Address
- The Meadows School, Dudley Road East, Sandwell
- Postcode
- B69 3BU
- Town
- Oldbury
- County
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- District
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 262
- Boys / girls
- 186 / 76
- School capacity
- 215
- Capacity fill
- 262 / 215 (122%)
- Free school meals
- 57.8%
- FSM pupils
- 107
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Governance
- Community special school
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; HI - Hearing Impairment; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Resourced provision
- SEN unit
- SEN unit places
- 262 on roll / 215 capacity
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr James Horspool
- Telephone
- 01215697080
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-02-03
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
12.1%
Persistent absence
27.9%
Unauthorised
2.1%
- Authorised absence
- 10.1%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 5.4%
- Enrolments in measure
- 147
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 10.3% · Persistent 29.2%
- 2021/22
- Overall 8.8% · Persistent 29.2%