Three Bridges Primary School

Community school·Primary school Crawley, West Sussex·RH10 1QG
Composite score
34.4
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#12,465
National rank
#1864
In South East
#165
In West Sussex
Top 84%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
53%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
47 first choices, 50 places
First choices per place
0.94
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
134
any preference, for 50 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320220.9120230.9120240.8820250.942026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Three Bridges Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
654
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
21.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
42.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,619
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Three Bridges Primary School at a glance

Located in Crawley, West Sussex, Three Bridges Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 654 pupils aged 3 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. 53% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 12.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Three Bridges Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 50 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.9%. There are about 19.0 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Three Bridges Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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