Crowlands Primary School
General Information
- Address: London Road, Romford, RM7 9EJ – View on map
- Phone: 01708743402
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Sarah Clark
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Furthest place offered from: Not oversubscribed on distance that year From the council's own Sept 2025 admissions data - not a fixed catchment boundary, and no guarantee for future years, since it shifts with demand each year.
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 69 families put it first for 78 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 5 of the 78 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 129
- % eligible for free school meals: 20.5%
- Pupil mix: 9 in 10 (more mixed than the Havering average)
- English as an additional language: 35% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 14.5% a year (Havering 14.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 52% moved to another school, 48% 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.
Supply and cover teaching
- Classes taught mainly by supply or cover staff for half a term or more: 0 (a full term or more: 0)
- Teaching posts vacant or only temporarily filled during the year: 0
- Days of supply or agency teacher cover: 0
- Data year: 2025/26 (from the school, under Freedom of Information)
Government figures only count teachers on contracts of 28 days or more, so a class covered by a run of supply teachers doesn't show up in them – which is why we ask schools directly.
Behaviour
Good record 2025/26
Reading the numbers: higher figures below often mean a school records thoroughly and takes concerns seriously, rather than more incidents happening. A school reporting unusually low figures sometimes has a reporting gap rather than a problem-free intake. If a figure stands out, it's worth asking the school how it records.
- Data year: 2025/26
- Bullying incidents: 0
- Physical aggression / violence incidents: 6
- Child protection referrals: 22
- Safeguarding concerns: 76
- Racist incidents: 2
- Suspensions (fixed-term exclusions): 2
- Permanent exclusions: 0
- Sexual harassment or sexual violence between pupils (recorded incidents): 0 (led to a suspension or exclusion: 2; referred to social care or police: 1) – a higher number can mean a school takes reports seriously and records them carefully
Figures may show "<5" for some schools.
4th of 21 primary schools in Havering for behaviour
- #2Dame Tipping Church of England Primary School70%
- #3Hylands Primary School68%
- #4Crowlands Primary School68%
- #5Benhurst Primary School65%
- #6Park Primary Academy65%
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Across Havering: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 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 Havering, 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: 5.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 24 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 14 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 17 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 13 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
This score reflects how openly the school responded to our Freedom of Information request. Schools that withhold information are rated lower — even the act of hiding data tells parents something about a school’s openness.
All 1 other scored primary schools in Havering scored higher on transparency this year.
- Response
- Full response (+60)
- Timeliness
- Response date not recorded (+10)
- Optional data
- No optional data (+0)
Exemplary (80–100) · Cooperative (60–79) · Reluctant (40–59) · Obstructive (20–39) · Opaque (0–19)
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 80% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points above the Havering average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 73% against an expected 66%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 73%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 85% · Writing 83% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 85%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 80 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
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SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 7th of 49 junior and primary schools in the area
- =4St Alban's Catholic Primary School83%
- #6Concordia Academy81%
- =7Crowlands Primary School80%
- =7La Salette Catholic Primary School80%
- =9Dame Tipping Church of England Primary School77%
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8th of 29 primary schools in Havering for Ofsted rating
- #6Branfil Primary SchoolGood
- #7Broadford Primary SchoolGood
- #8Crowlands Primary SchoolGood
- #9Dame Tipping Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #10Engayne Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,031 (2024-25)
22nd of 39 primary schools in Havering for spending per pupil
- #20St Peter's Catholic Primary School£7,088
- #21Harold Court Primary School£7,035
- #22Crowlands Primary School£7,031
- #23Hylands Primary School£6,986
- #24St Mary's Catholic Primary School£6,969
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Environment
Data received 2025/26
Accessibility
- Step-free for pupils, staff and visitors: Yes
- Overall accessibility: Fully
- Lifts for pupil use: Not needed - single-storey site
- Accessible toilets: Yes
- Changing Places facility: Yes
- Sensory room: No
Climate
- Classrooms with air conditioning: 8%
- Mechanical ventilation: No
- Air cooling units: Yes - some classrooms
- Shaded outdoor areas: Some
- Heatwave procedures: Yes - written procedure
Technology
- Pupil devices (approx.): 256
- Pupils per device: 2:1
- Digital display in every classroom: Yes
- Interactive whiteboards: Yes - all classrooms
- 1:1 pupil device programme: Yes - all pupils
- Coding / robotics equipment: Yes - Robin/microbits/ VR Headsets
- Assistive technology for SEND pupils: Yes - Proloquo and Learning Village