Orrets Meadow School
Chapelhill Road, Moreton, Wirral, CH46 9QQ
This school is closed (it closed in August 2025).
It was replaced by Orrets Meadow School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 5 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Carolyn Duncan
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Constituency
- Wallasey
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 93
- Pupils on roll
- 93
- URN
- 105140
- Local authority
- Wirral
About this school
Orrets Meadow School was a community special school in Wirral. It taught children aged 5 to 11 and had 93 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Orrets Meadow School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 21 | 21 | 33 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Expected standard in reading | 24% | 19% | 9% |
| Expected standard in maths | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 14% | 10% | 6% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 102.0 | 100.0 | 99.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 97.0 | 95.0 | 95.0 |
| Reading progress | 0.00 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -4.90 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -5.90 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Orrets Meadow School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Wirral average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 5% | 52% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 0% | 50.3% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 0% | 53.3% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 4.4% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 4.2% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 4.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 82 |
| 2023/24 | 84 |
| 2024/25 | 93 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 52.69%
- English as an additional language
- 3.2%
- Overall absence
- 4.07%
- Persistent absence
- 8.6%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Orrets Meadow School0.0 miles
Academies · Wirral
-
Clare Mount Specialist Sports College0.4 miles
Special schools · Leasowe
-
Hayfield School0.5 miles
Special schools · Wirral
-
Wirral Wrap0.8 miles
Special schools · Birkenhead
-
The Observatory School1.0 miles
Special schools · Prenton
Other schools in Wirral
- Hayfield School Special schools
- Meadowside School Special schools
- Orrets Meadow School Academies
- Stanley School Special schools
- West Kirby School and College Special schools
- Wirral Hospitals' School Academies
- Castleway Nursery School Nursery
- Ganneys Meadow Nursery School and Family Centre Nursery
- Barnston Primary School Primary
- Black Horse Hill Infant School Primary
- Black Horse Hill Junior School Primary
- Brackenwood Infant School Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Orrets Meadow School teach?
- Orrets Meadow School taught children aged 5 to 11. It was a special school in Wirral.
- Has Orrets Meadow School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Orrets Meadow School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Orrets Meadow School?
- Orrets Meadow School had 93 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 5 to 11.
- How have Orrets Meadow School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 5% in 2022/23 and 0% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Orrets Meadow School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Orrets Meadow School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 31 August 2025.