Crick Primary School

Crick Primary School is performing well overall with a strong emphasis on safeguarding, a high-quality curriculum, and a positive learning environment. The school has successfully established a culture where pupils feel safe and valued, with leaders actively working to ensure all pupils, including those with special educational needs, receive the support they require. However, while pupils are making steady progress, there are concerns regarding the underachievement of some pupils in reading, writing, and mathematics, indicating that further improvements can be made in these areas.

Strengths

• Strong safeguarding practices that ensure pupils feel safe.
• Ambitious and well-planned curriculum that supports pupil learning.
• High-quality interactions and supportive relationships in early years.
• Effective behaviour management and positive school environment.
• Leaders maintain high expectations and support staff development.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils do not achieve as highly as they could in core subjects.
• Teachers do not consistently adapt learning tasks for higher attaining pupils.
• Improvements in teaching practices are not always carried out with precision.

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 Crick Primary School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.5% 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 Crick 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 Crick Primary School had 25.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.1% 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, 7.7% of pupils at Crick Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% 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 Crick Primary School received £6,262 and spent £6,492 for each of its 194 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £48,000 (-£247 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 Crick Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Crick Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Crick Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Crick Primary School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Crick Primary School have?

Crick Primary School has 194 pupils on roll.

What age range does Crick Primary School cover?

Crick Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 39% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Crick Primary School?

Crick Primary School is at Main Road, Crick, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN6 7TU.