Southgate Primary
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Crawley, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Southgate Primary is a primary school in Crawley, West Sussex for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 October 2023. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Southgate Primary 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, but in 2 of the 4 earlier years with a published outcome places ran out and a last distance was published.
- Reception in 2026 had 17 first-choice applications for 23 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 45% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in West Sussex.
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
- Barrington Road, Southgate, Crawley, RH10 6DG
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 267 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 October 2023
Strengths
- “The school’s values of ‘aspiration, respect, resilience and co-operation’ filter through everything at Southgate Primary.”
- “Staff are ambitious for pupils, setting consistently high expectations for learning.”
- “Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), achieve well academically.”
To improve
- “In these subjects, pupils can clearly describe their current learning, but they are less clear about what they have learned previously.”
- “Where the curriculum is new in some subjects, the school knows that pupils have some gaps in their prior knowledge.”
- “However, books are not always precisely matched to the sounds that pupils know, which means pupils are not always supported to read as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 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) | 45% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 17 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.
- Hilltop Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, Crawley 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Desmond Anderson Primary Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Broadfield Primary Academy 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Oaks Primary School & Nursery 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Seymour Primary School 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- West Green Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published