Woodgate Primary Academy, Crawley

Ofsted's report card from its 21 April 2026 inspection grades Woodgate Primary Academy on 7 areas: 5 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils attend well."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders provide clear and confident leadership in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school puts pupils first."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders understand the school well and know its strengths."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders place personal development and wellbeing at the centre of school life."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils do not yet achieve as well as they could."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Staff sometimes do not address basic errors in pupils' handwriting and spelling sufficiently well or rapidly enough."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders must ensure that staff continue to embed and secure foundations in spelling, handwriting and grammar so that pupils can access the rest of the curriculum and gain later academic success"; "Leaders must make sure pupils continue to make positive progress from their starting points, that enables them to produce high-quality work across the curriculum and where appropriate achieve well in national tests and examinations"; "Leaders must sustain improvements in attendance and ensure that high attendance is consistently promoted for all pupils".

In 2025, 92% of Year 6 pupils at Woodgate Primary Academy 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 83% in reading and 42% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 33 families put Woodgate Primary Academy as their first choice and 76 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 4 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Woodgate Primary Academy are Broadfield Primary Academy (0.9 miles, Good, 86% reading, 84% maths); Desmond Anderson Primary Academy (1 mile, Good, 72% reading, 68% maths); Seymour Primary School (1.1 miles, Good, 77% reading, 88% maths); and Hilltop Primary School (1.4 miles, Good, 87% reading, 86% maths).

Woodgate Primary Academy's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Woodgate Primary Academy is one of 7 schools run by Sussex Learning Trust, an academy trust.

27.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (63%), Asian (10%) and Mixed (9%).

In 2026, 38 pupils (22.5%) received SEN support and 20 (11.8%) 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.

Woodgate Primary Academy had 9 teachers in 2026, one for every 13 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Crawley Rail Station, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Woodgate Primary Academy (adjacent), 120 metres away.

In 2024/25, Woodgate Primary Academy issued 5 suspensions, 3.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.