Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in East Sussex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Exceptional | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Strong standard | ||||
| Achievement | Strong standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Strong standard | ||||
| Early years | Strong standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Strong standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
Inspection history
- 11 November 2025Report card · 1 Exceptional, 6 Strong standard
- 23 November 2021Graded inspection: Good
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry81 applications · 42 places offered · 41 named it first
- 2026 1.9; East Sussex median median 2.2
- 2025 2.4; East Sussex median median 2.2
- 2024 1.6; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2023 1.6; East Sussex median median 2.0
- 2022 1.7; East Sussex median median 2.0
- 2021 1.7; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2020 1.5; East Sussex median median 2.0
- 2019 1.5; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2018 1.4; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2017 1.6; East Sussex median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 1.9; East Sussex median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2015 1.7; East Sussex median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.3; East Sussex median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- East Sussex median
Dashed bars: as Castledown Primary School (URN 114474), 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 | 42 | 81 | 1.9 | 41 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2025 | 35 | 83 | 2.4 | 34 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 54 | 88 | 1.6 | 52 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 51 | 81 | 1.6 | 45 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2022 | 43 | 71 | 1.7 | 35 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2021 | 33 | 57 | 1.7 | 30 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2020 | 45 | 67 | 1.5 | 42 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2019 | 41 | 63 | 1.5 | 29 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2018 | 39 | 55 | 1.4 | 34 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 95 | 1.6 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2016 * | 59 | 112 | 1.9 | 76 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2015 * | 60 | 100 | 1.7 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2014 * | 54 | 72 | 1.3 | 48 | 0.89 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 80% · Writing 84% · Maths 82% → all three 78% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- East Sussex median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 78% | 8% | 104 | 104 |
| 2023/24 | 75% | 7% | 106 | 105 |
| 2022/23 | 75% | 4% | 105 | 103 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Ark Castledown Primary AcademyThis schoolThis school20251.9applications per place 78%met the SATs standard
- 0.4 km · East SussexRemains Good2023
- 0.6 km · East SussexRequires improvement20241.7applications per place 56%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · East SussexStandards maintained20252.2applications per place
- 0.9 km · East SussexRemains Good202363%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · East SussexRemains Outstanding20232.0applications per place 92%met the SATs standard
- 1.7 km · East SussexStandards maintained20251.7applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · East SussexRemains Good · improving20241.9applications per place 72%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · East SussexRemains Good20242.5applications per place
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 144083 · 845/2025
- Trust
- Ark Schools
- Capacity
- 480 pupils · 403 on roll
- Free school meals
- 51.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2017
- Replaced
- Castledown Primary School (URN 114474)
- Address
- Priory Road, Hastings, TN34 3QT
- Local authority
- East Sussex · Hastings
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources