Dudley Port School
Ofsted: Requires improvement
- Type
- Other independent special school
- Location
- Dudley Port, DY4 7QR
- Distance
- 1.9km away
The Meadows School
The Meadows School, Dudley Road East, Sandwell, Oldbury, B69 3BU
Ofsted: Expected
Independent
Phase
215
Capacity
11-19
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum & teaching
- Expected standard
- Attendance & behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Post-16 provision
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Cohort Size
- 24
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 100.0%
- Continued in education
- 100.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 0.0%
- Employment
- 0.0%
- Not sustained
- 0.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 223
- Boys
- 164 (74%)
- Girls
- 59 (26%)
- Capacity
- 215 (104% full)
- SEND
- 100.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 54.7%
- EAL
- 35.9%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 100.0%
- SEN Support
- 0.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 7.1:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.2
- Budget per Pupil
- £28,979/yr
*Financial data not available for 2024-25 — showing 2023-24
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 13.0% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 35.3% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community special school
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- Not applicable
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 36.9%
- Asian Pakistani: 15.8%
- Asian Indian: 13.1%
- Black African: 5.4%
- Black Caribbean: 5.0%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 4.5%
- Other: 3.1%
- White Other: 2.7%
36.9%
White British
15.8%
Asian Pakistani
13.1%
Asian Indian
Historical Trends
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
The Meadows School, Dudley Road East
Oldbury, West Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 132231
- UKPRN
- 10009680
- Establishment No.
- 7017
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