Crawley Green Infant School

Crawley Green Infant School is performing well across its key areas. Pupils enjoy attending school, have strong relationships with staff and behave well overall, while an ambitious and broad curriculum starts in the early years and builds pupils' learning over time. Early reading is a particular strength, with well-trained staff, books matched to pupils' phonics knowledge and improving outcomes. Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are carefully identified and well supported, including through personalised curriculums where needed. The main areas for improvement are the school's oversight of a few foundation subjects, where leaders do not check curriculum implementation closely enough, and inconsistent application of the behaviour policy, which can occasionally disrupt learning. Safeguarding is effective, personal development is well planned, attendance is improving, and governors know the school well. This was the school's first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its first section 5 inspection since 2013; it had been exempt from routine inspection because it was previously judged outstanding. It is a foundation infant school with co-headteachers, and, as applies to schools inspected from September 2024, no overall effectiveness grade was awarded.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy school and have strong relationships with staff.
• Pupils behave well overall and respond appropriately to praise and reminders.
• An ambitious and broad curriculum starts in the early years and builds over time.
• Staff have strong subject knowledge and regularly review pupils' key learning.
• Pupils with SEND are carefully identified, assessed and well supported, including through personal curriculums.
• Early reading is a priority, with well-trained staff, matched books and improving phonics outcomes.
• Personal development is well planned, with trips, visitors and leadership opportunities for pupils.
• Attendance is improving through the school's systems and processes.
• Staff value professional development, and governors know the school well and challenge and support effectively.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum implementation is not checked closely enough in a few foundation subjects, so leaders do not know whether changes or training are needed.
• The behaviour policy is not applied consistently, leading to a small number of incidents that disrupt other pupils' learning.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Crawley Green Infant School attended 93.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 18.4% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Crawley Green Infant School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Crawley Green Infant School had 23.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 25.6% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 8.7% of pupils at Crawley Green Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Crawley Green Infant School received £7,726 and spent £7,513 for each of its 253 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £368,000 (£1,453 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Crawley Green Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Crawley Green Infant School is Good, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was Crawley Green Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Crawley Green Infant School was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does Crawley Green Infant School have?

Crawley Green Infant School has 253 pupils on roll.

What age range does Crawley Green Infant School cover?

Crawley Green Infant School for pupils aged 4 to 7.

Where is Crawley Green Infant School?

Crawley Green Infant School is at Beaconsfield, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 0RW.