Crown Wood Primary School

Crown Wood Primary School is performing well overall, demonstrating notable strengths in safeguarding, early years education, and inclusion practices. The school has created a safe and nurturing environment where pupils feel valued and supported, which contributes to their positive behavior and attitudes. The curriculum is ambitious, particularly in its delivery of phonics and reading, enabling many pupils to achieve well. However, there are areas requiring attention, particularly in the wider curriculum where some pupils experience gaps in their knowledge, which the school leadership is currently working to address.

Strengths

• Highly ambitious early years curriculum.
• Effective safeguarding culture that prioritizes pupil safety.
• Strong support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
• Positive relationships between staff, pupils, and parents.
• Effective teaching of phonics and reading.
• Well-established routines supporting excellent behavior.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils have gaps in knowledge across the wider curriculum.
• Inconsistent support for writing skills.
• Behaviour of a small proportion of pupils needs improvement during unstructured times.

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 Crown Wood Primary School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.8% 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, 1.4% of pupils at Crown Wood 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 Crown Wood Primary School had 23.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.4% 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, 16.2% of pupils at Crown Wood Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.4% 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 Crown Wood Primary School received £6,149 and spent £6,235 for each of its 643 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £531,000 (£825 per pupil).

Across all 36 schools of Greenshaw Learning Trust, income was £8,062 and spending £7,907 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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All schools in Bracknell · Bracknell Forest local authority: places and applications

Crown Wood Primary School is part of Greenshaw Learning Trust, which runs 39 schools. The nearest others:

• The Brakenhale School Bracknell
• Wooden Hill Primary and Nursery School Bracknell
• Sandy Lane Primary School Bracknell
• Wildmoor Heath School Bracknell
• Oakbank School Reading
• Hartland High School Reading
• Broadwater School Godalming
• Greenshaw High School Sutton
• Tweeddale Primary School Carshalton
• Green Wrythe Primary School Carshalton

What is Crown Wood Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Crown Wood Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in March 2026.

When was Crown Wood Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Crown Wood Primary School was last inspected in March 2026.

How many pupils does Crown Wood Primary School have?

Crown Wood Primary School has 671 pupils on roll.

What age range does Crown Wood Primary School cover?

Crown Wood Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

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

Where is Crown Wood Primary School?

Crown Wood Primary School is at Opladen Way, Crown Wood, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 0PE.