Milton Mount Primary School

Milton Mount Primary School is performing well overall. Inspectors found the school meets expected standards across achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development. Safeguarding standards are met. Pupils are happy, safe and behave well in a warm, inclusive school community, and they achieve well from their starting points, including pupils with SEND. The school provides a broad, ambitious curriculum, strong reading provision and effective pastoral support. Attendance has improved, including for disadvantaged pupils, and leadership, governance and staff development are notable strengths. The school is part of the Greensand Multi Academy Trust and is a large primary school with 619 pupils.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, safe and behave well in a warm, welcoming and inclusive school community.
• Pupils achieve well and leave school well prepared for the next stage of their education.
• Pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils are identified early and learn well from their starting points.
• Reading has a high priority, with well-taught phonics and strong support for pupils who need extra help.
• Pupils develop secure knowledge and core skills in reading and mathematics.
• The curriculum is broad and ambitious, with detailed knowledge developed across a wide range of subjects.
• Pupils routinely produce work of a high standard, particularly in science and history.
• Attendance is carefully monitored and improving, including for disadvantaged pupils.
• Behaviour is consistently good, with positive relationships and effective handling of issues.
• Early years provision gives children a strong start, with well-established routines and effective phonics teaching.
• Inclusion is highly effective, with timely identification and strong partnerships with parents and external specialists.
• Leadership, governance and trust oversight are effective, with a clear vision and well-targeted staff training.
• Staff workload and wellbeing are managed highly effectively.
• Personal development is strong, with pupils embodying school values and taking on leadership roles.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of clubs, trips and activities that broaden their experiences.

Areas for Improvement

• Achievement in writing is less consistent, including for some disadvantaged pupils.
• Disadvantaged pupils' writing outcomes are below national averages and the disadvantaged gap in writing remains wide.
• Teachers do not consistently check that all pupils have secured understanding before moving learning on.
• Teaching is not yet consistently adapted to address misconceptions across all classrooms.
• The writing curriculum is not implemented consistently well across all subjects.
• Pupils' transcriptional skills, including handwriting, are not yet secure across the curriculum.
• Number formation in early years is less consistent and not yet embedded as securely as handwriting.
• Practice is not yet consistent across all classrooms, particularly in writing.

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 Milton Mount Primary School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.2% 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, 1.5% of pupils at Milton Mount Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). 2 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 Milton Mount Primary School had 21.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 23.1% 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, 16.3% of pupils at Milton Mount Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% 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 Milton Mount Primary School received £5,860 and spent £6,009 for each of its 619 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £240,000 (£387 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of Greensand Multi Academy Trust, income was £6,295 and spending £6,600 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 Crawley · West Sussex local authority: places and applications

Milton Mount Primary School is part of Greensand Multi Academy Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• Horley Infant School Horley
• Yattendon School Horley
• Dovers Green School Reigate
• Reigate School Reigate
• St John's Primary School Redhill
• Wray Common Primary School Reigate
• Holmesdale Community Infant School Reigate
• Kingswood Primary School Tadworth
• Epsom Downs Community School & Early Years Centres Epsom Downs

What is Milton Mount Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Milton Mount Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Milton Mount Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Milton Mount Primary School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Milton Mount Primary School have?

Milton Mount Primary School has 618 pupils on roll.

What age range does Milton Mount Primary School cover?

Milton Mount Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Milton Mount Primary School?

Milton Mount Primary School is at Grattons Drive, Pound Hill, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 3AG.