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Meadowcroft Community Primary School

PrimaryAges 4–11Community

Chertsey, KT16 9PT · Surrey local authority

Chertsey’s School Grade A− better than 79% of towns in England

Getting in
19/21
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
135 pupils
90% of its 150 places
Free school meals
26%
26 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Meadowcroft Community Primary School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 90% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (19 of 21)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (KT16 9) sold for a median £412,500; Chertsey’s is £400,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Meadowcroft Community Primary School?

90% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

21
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
90%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2026 (2). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Surrey council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Surrey council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Chertsey, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

2.70 per place
36% got their first choice
1.45 per place
57% got their first choice
1.24 per place
78% got their first choice
Meadowcroft Community Primary
0.70 per place
90% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

100 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
10%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
18%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
33%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

No letter for Meadowcroft Community Primary School

No published results for this school: a new school, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Meadowcroft Community Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in KT16 9, the school’s postcode sector

Chertsey property prices →
£412,500
median sale, 356 sales in 36 months · Chertsey £400,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025KT16 9Chertsey
KT16 9Chertsey

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£660K
Semi-detached
£515K
Terraced
£400K
Flat
£255K
KT16 9Chertsey

Homes in KT16 9 sell for a little over Chertsey’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

14 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBDCC+B+C−B−A−AAB−B+B−Meadowcroft Community Prima…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Chertsey, KT16 9PT

Meadowcroft Community Primary School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Meadowcroft Community Primary School?

For September 2026, 21 families put Meadowcroft Community Primary School first and 19 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is Meadowcroft Community Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Meadowcroft Community Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, KT16 9, sold for a median £412,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (356 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Chertsey’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.