Crowle Primary Academy

Crowle Primary Academy demonstrates a strong overall performance, particularly in safeguarding, attendance, and the emotional well-being of its students. The school is successfully nurturing a positive environment where pupils feel valued and safe, with leaders actively addressing areas for improvement, particularly in supporting students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). While pupils are achieving well in reading, writing, and mathematics, there is an ongoing need to enhance the wider curriculum to ensure deeper retention of knowledge across subjects. The school's proximity to average national figures in various metrics indicates that while performance is commendable, there are still areas that require further development to fully meet expectations.

Strengths

• Strong safeguarding culture that makes pupils feel safe.
• Well-designed attendance tracking systems that support improvement.
• Positive relationships between pupils and staff that foster a supportive learning environment.
• Effective leadership that prioritizes the needs of pupils.
• Value placed on personal development and emotional well-being.
• Successful support systems for disadvantaged pupils.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils struggle to articulate their knowledge in the wider curriculum.
• Recent improvements in the wider curriculum are too early to assess impact.
• Need for more consistent adaptation of learning to meet all pupils' needs.

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 Crowle Primary Academy attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.9% 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, 0.9% of pupils at Crowle Primary Academy 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 Crowle Primary Academy had 23.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.2% 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, 15.9% of pupils at Crowle Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.9% 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 2024–25 Crowle Primary Academy received £6,543 and spent £6,158 for each of its 227 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £220,000 (£968 per pupil).

Across all 11 schools of The Rose Learning Trust, income was £6,563 and spending £6,320 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Crowle Primary Academy is part of The Rose Learning Trust, which runs 11 schools. The nearest others:

• Hatchell Wood Primary Academy Doncaster
• Town Field Primary School Doncaster
• Lakeside Primary Academy Doncaster
• Scawby Academy Brigg
• Balby Central Primary Academy Doncaster
• Scawsby Junior Academy Doncaster
• Owston Park Primary Academy Doncaster
• Hibaldstow Academy Brigg
• Woodfield Primary School Doncaster
• Richmond Hill Primary Academy Doncaster

What is Crowle Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Crowle Primary Academy is Needs attention, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Crowle Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Crowle Primary Academy was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Crowle Primary Academy have?

Crowle Primary Academy has 232 pupils on roll.

What age range does Crowle Primary Academy cover?

Crowle Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Crowle Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Crowle Primary Academy?

Crowle Primary Academy is at Manor Road, Crowle, Lincolnshire, DN17 4ET.