Crawshawbooth Primary School

Crawshawbooth Primary School continues to be recognized as a good school with a welcoming atmosphere and strong values that promote respect, resilience, and curiosity among its pupils. The leadership is proactive in fostering high standards of behavior, ensuring that students, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), feel safe and motivated to learn. The school emphasizes a broad curriculum, with strong support for early reading and a variety of extracurricular activities, enhancing students' physical health and cultural awareness. However, further refinement of the curriculum is needed in certain subjects to ensure clarity in what key knowledge should be taught, which currently affects some pupils' learning continuity.

Strengths

• Strong leadership promoting high expectations for behavior
• Effective safeguarding culture ensuring pupil safety
• Strong subject knowledge among teachers
• Well-designed early reading program with diverse literature
• Engagement in a variety of physical fitness activities
• Active participation in leadership roles by pupils
• Supportive community and governor involvement

Areas for Improvement

• Some curriculum refinements are incomplete in a few subjects
• Certain pupils read books that do not match their phonics knowledge

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 Crawshawbooth Primary School attended 96.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.0% 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 Crawshawbooth Primary 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 Crawshawbooth Primary School had 22.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.1% 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, 12.8% of pupils at Crawshawbooth Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.0% 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 Crawshawbooth Primary School received £6,421 and spent £6,323 for each of its 296 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £34,000 (-£114 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 Crawshawbooth Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Crawshawbooth Primary School is Good, from an inspection in April 2023.

When was Crawshawbooth Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Crawshawbooth Primary School was last inspected in April 2023.

How many pupils does Crawshawbooth Primary School have?

Crawshawbooth Primary School has 296 pupils on roll.

What age range does Crawshawbooth Primary School cover?

Crawshawbooth Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Crawshawbooth Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Crawshawbooth Primary School?

Crawshawbooth Primary School is at Burnley Road, Crawshawbooth, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 8AN.