Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in West Sussex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry263 applications · 86 places offered · 77 named it first
- 2026 3.1; West Sussex median median 2.5
- 2025 3.2; West Sussex median median 2.5
- 2024 3.3; West Sussex median median 2.6
- 2023 3.3; West Sussex median median 2.6
- 2022 3.5; West Sussex median median 2.7
- 2021 3.3; West Sussex median median 2.7
- 2020 3.7; West Sussex median median 2.8
- 2019 4.1; West Sussex median median 2.8
- 2018 4.0; West Sussex median median 2.8
- 2017 4.2; West Sussex median median 2.5
- 2016 4.8; West Sussex median median 2.7
- 2015 5.1; West Sussex median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2014 4.2; West Sussex median median 2.6; as the previous school
- This school
- West Sussex median
Dashed bars: as Pound Hill Infant School (URN 125898), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 86 | 263 | 3.1 | 77 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 90 | 292 | 3.2 | 97 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2024 | 89 | 291 | 3.3 | 72 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2023 | 90 | 299 | 3.3 | 81 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2022 | 90 | 315 | 3.5 | 84 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2021 | 90 | 300 | 3.3 | 82 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2020 | 90 | 332 | 3.7 | 82 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2019 | 90 | 372 | 4.1 | 100 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2018 | 90 | 362 | 4.0 | 114 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2017 | 90 | 380 | 4.2 | 140 | 1.56 |
| Sep 2016 | 91 | 434 | 4.8 | 164 | 1.80 |
| Sep 2015 * | 90 | 461 | 5.1 | 139 | 1.54 |
| Sep 2014 * | 90 | 380 | 4.2 | 113 | 1.26 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Pound Hill Infant AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.1applications per place
- 0.1 km · West SussexRemains Good202479%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · West Sussex20262.7applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · West SussexRequires improvement20242.7applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · West SussexGraded · no overall grade20252.4applications per place
- 1.3 km · West SussexRemains Good202263%met the SATs standard
- 1.7 km · West SussexRemains Good20222.9applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · West SussexGood20243.6applications per place
- 1.9 km · West SussexStandards maintained20253.1applications per place 51%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 142290 · 938/2150
- Trust
- Reach2 Academy Trust
- Capacity
- 270 pupils · 269 on roll
- Free school meals
- 10.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2015
- Replaced
- Pound Hill Infant School (URN 125898)
- Address
- Crawley Lane, Pound Hill, Pound Hill Infant Academy, Crawley, RH10 7EB
- Local authority
- West Sussex · Crawley
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources