Milton Mount Primary School, Crawley

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades Milton Mount 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. "Pupils achieve well and leave school well prepared for the next stage of their education."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders prioritise improving pupils' attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils study a broad and ambitious curriculum."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have a clear and ambitious vision for the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders work effectively to remove barriers to learning faced by pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and disadvantaged pupils."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have clarified and strengthened the school's vision."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils embody the school's values."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders need to further develop staff expertise in checking pupils' understanding and identifying misconceptions, so that teaching is adapted effectively and pupils consistently secure and apply their learning"; "Leaders should ensure that the writing curriculum is implemented consistently well across all subjects so that pupils develop secure transcriptional skills, including handwriting, and are well prepared for the next stage of education".

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils at Milton Mount Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 75% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 72% in West Sussex and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 75% in reading and 69% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 94 families put Milton Mount Primary School as their first choice and 246 named it as one of their preferences, for 90 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 5 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Milton Mount Primary School are Pound Hill Infant Academy (0.4 miles, Outstanding); Pound Hill Junior School, Crawley (0.5 miles, Good, 89% reading, 88% maths); Three Bridges Primary School (0.8 miles, Requires improvement, 77% reading, 65% maths); and Forge Wood Primary School (0.8 miles, Outstanding, 66% reading, 63% maths).

Milton Mount Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 3 schools.

Milton Mount Primary School is one of 10 schools run by Greensand Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

13.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 101 pupils (16.3%) received SEN support and 16 (2.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

Milton Mount Primary School had 42 teachers in 2026, one for every 15 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Three Bridges Rail Station, about 910 metres away (roughly a 11-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Burns Road (adjacent), 210 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Milton Mount Primary School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Milton Mount Primary School issued 27 suspensions, 4.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Milton Mount Primary School are Hazelwick School (0.4 miles), The Gatwick School (0.9 miles) and Oriel High School (1.4 miles).