Crescent Primary School

Community school·Primary school Mansfield, Nottinghamshire·NG19 7LF
Composite score
55.6
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#5,288
National rank
#406
In East Midlands
#91
In Nottinghamshire
Top 36%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
73%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
98%
59 first choices, 58 places
First choices per place
1.02
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
120
any preference, for 58 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9820220.9620231.0020240.9820251.022026

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

Nottinghamshire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Crescent Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
452
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
38.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
19.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,914
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Crescent Primary School at a glance

Located in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Crescent Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 452 pupils aged 3 to 11. 73% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 7.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 36% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Crescent Primary School is oversubscribed: about 10 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 59 first choices for 58 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 24.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 39% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Crescent Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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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