Croft Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: South Parade, Croft-on-Tees, Darlington, DL2 2SP – View on map
- Phone: 01325720528
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Rebecca Wallace
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 13 families put it first for 13 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 6 of the 13 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 11 · 2025 11 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 4
- % eligible for free school meals: 4.2%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 9.4% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 100% moved to another school, 0% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across North Yorkshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 11 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in North Yorkshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 3.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 4.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 9.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 92% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 15% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 31 percentage points above the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 78% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 78%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 92% · Writing 92% · Maths 92% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 92%
- Average test scores: reading 112, maths 110
- Based on: 13 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 5th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =3Askwith Primary School94%
- =3Middleton Tyas Church of England Primary School94%
- =5Croft Church of England Primary School92%
- =5South Kilvington Church of England Academy92%
- =7Beckwithshaw Community Primary School91%
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52nd of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #50Crakehall Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #51Crayke Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #52Croft Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #53Dacre Braithwaite Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #54Darley Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,723 (2024-25)
171st of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #169Hunmanby Primary School£6,751
- #170Greatwood Community Primary School£6,739
- #171Croft Church of England Primary School£6,723
- #172Brotherton and Byram Community Primary Academy£6,711
- #173Eppleby Forcett Church of England Primary School£6,700
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