Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School, Cramlington

Ofsted's report card from its 23 June 2026 inspection grades Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Leaders maintain a sharp focus on ensuring that all pupils achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Overall attendance is above the national average."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a curriculum that is well sequenced from the early years to Year 6."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff work closely with parents and carers to ensure smooth transition into school."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a culture where support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who are disadvantaged is prioritised in all aspects of school life."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate view of the school's strengths and areas for improvement."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a well-considered programme for pupils' personal development that is shaped around the school's context so that pupils develop their understanding of life in modern Britain."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders and governors should strengthen their oversight of key systems and records so that they can accurately identify any areas of weakness. This includes ensuring that systems and processes for reporting and recording concerns are effectively and continually reviewed"; "Leaders should ensure that recent changes to the curriculum are embedded, and highly effective teaching is consistently established across all subjects and year groups to ensure that more pupils achieve highly".

In 2025, 88% of Year 6 pupils at Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 81% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 72% in Northumberland and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 84% in reading and 72% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 40 families put Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School as their first choice and 73 named it as one of their preferences, for 51 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 1 family who put it first was not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School are Ss Peter and Paul's Catholic Primary Academy (0.4 miles, Good, 82% reading, 79% maths); Hareside Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 85% reading, 78% maths); Fordley Primary School (1.1 miles, Outstanding, 81% reading, 74% maths); and Seghill First School (1.2 miles, Good).

Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

14.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 4.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Railway station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.

In August 2026, police recorded 154 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual offences and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Northumberland (44), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School issued 3 suspensions, 0.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School are Cramlington Learning Village (0.5 miles) and North Gosforth Academy (1.8 miles).