Castlewood Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Horsham, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.16 miles
Published by West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Castlewood Primary School is a primary school in Horsham, West Sussex for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 11 January 2023. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Castlewood Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 1.16 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.16 miles away, the 39th shortest of 87 West Sussex primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception 2026 last distance was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2018. The 2026 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 34 first-choice applications for 30 offers. 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 17% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Sussex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Castlewood Road, Southwater, Horsham, RH13 9US
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 205 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 11 January 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders are determined that by the time pupils leave Castlewood, they will be ‘world ready’.”
- “This ambition is realised through a school-wide culture of high expectations in terms of pupils’ learning, behaviour and character development.”
- “As a result, pupils achieve well and show resilience with their learning.”
To improve
- “Pupils do not achieve quite as highly in this area as they do in reading and mathematics.”
- “However, in a few foundation subjects, the exact sequence of learning is at an earlier stage of development.”
- “In these subjects, the precise progression of vocabulary and concepts has only recently been considered.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 72% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in West Sussex.
- Southwater Junior Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Southwater Infant Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE (Aided) Primary School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Barns Green Primary School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Arunside School, Horsham 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Greenway Junior School 2.7 mi Good