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The Mead Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Sponsored academy
Newbury Gardens, Ewell, Epsom KT19 0QG · mead.surrey.sch.uk · 020 8393 0966
On the mapSearch near KT19 0QG
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Jan 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Surrey Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 292
- 85% of 344 places
- Local authority
- Surrey
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 3.2%
- First language not English
- 9.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Surrey Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 86 families put the school first and 89 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 89 | 86 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 72 | 69 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 85 | 82 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 70 | 70 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 89 | 93 | 1▲ | 90% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected The Mead Infant and Nursery School on 27 January 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 27 Jan 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Nov 2021
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124959), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2021Inadequate
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Good Safeguarding Not effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124959)
Before September 2019
Apr 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124959)
What parents said
85% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (149 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 85%
- Positive
- 80%
- Replies
- 149
- 49% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 83% who raised concerns
based on 16 parents (11%) whose child was bullied
based on 27 parents (18%) with SEND