Living in Crawley with children
Crawley, West Sussex and Surrey. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 120,567 people in 46,417 households; 34.5% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
40 schools: 29 state primary, 7 state secondary, 4 privateCrawley on the schools map →Every school in Crawley, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (29)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turners Hill Church of England Primary School | Good | Top 10% · 2nd in West Sussex | — |
| Pound Hill Junior School, Crawley | School remains Good | Top 25% · 8th in West Sussex | — |
| Broadfield Primary Academy | Standards maintained | Top 25% · 13th in West Sussex | — |
| Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 25% · 16th in West Sussex | 0.286 miles (2026) |
| The Mill Primary Academy | Ofsted report card | Top half · 19th in West Sussex | — |
| Seymour Primary School | Improved significantly | Top half · 24th in West Sussex | 1.203 miles (2025) |
| Hilltop Primary School | School remains Good (Improving) | Top half · 29th in West Sussex | — |
| The Oaks Primary School & Nursery | Good | Top half · 45th in West Sussex | 1.298 miles (2026) |
| St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, Crawley | School remains Good | Lower half · 72nd in West Sussex | 0.196 miles (2025) |
| St Margaret's Church of England Primary School | Good | Lower half · 83rd in West Sussex | 0.322 miles (2025) |
| Maidenbower Junior School | School remains Good | Lower half · 94th in West Sussex | — |
| Langley Green Primary | School remains Good | Lower half · 96th in West Sussex | — |
| Milton Mount Primary School | Ofsted report card | Lower half · 99th in West Sussex | 1.229 miles (2026) |
| Waterfield Primary School | Ofsted report card | Lower half · 102nd in West Sussex | — |
| Crawley Down Village CofE School | School remains Good | Lower half · 106th in West Sussex | — |
| St Andrew's CofE Primary School | School remains Good | Lower half · 113th in West Sussex | 0.451 miles (2026) |
| Gossops Green Primary | Good | Lower half · 126th in West Sussex | — |
| The Bewbush Academy | Good | Lower half · 128th in West Sussex | — |
| West Green Primary School | Good | Lower half · 138th in West Sussex | — |
| Desmond Anderson Primary Academy | Good | Lower half · 160th in West Sussex | — |
| Forge Wood Primary School | Standards maintained | Lower half · 168th in West Sussex | 1.349 miles (2026) |
| Three Bridges Primary School | Requires improvement | Lower half · 174th in West Sussex | — |
| Northgate Primary School | Good | Lower half · 176th in West Sussex | — |
| Woodgate Primary Academy | Ofsted report card | Lower half · 181st in West Sussex | 0.642 miles (2026) |
| Southgate Primary | Good | Lower half · 182nd in West Sussex | 1.097 miles (2025) |
| Brook Infant School and Nursery | Good | — | 1.295 miles (2025) |
| Fairway Infant School, Copthorne | Standards maintained | — | — |
| Maidenbower Infant School and Nursery | Good | — | 2.24 miles (2026) |
| Pound Hill Infant Academy | Good | — | 0.923 miles (2025) |
State secondary schools (7)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazelwick School | Outstanding | Top half · 14th in West Sussex | 0.847 miles (2026) |
| Oriel High School | Good | Top half · 19th in West Sussex | — |
| St Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, Crawley | School remains Good | Lower half · 25th in West Sussex | 4.528 miles (2026) |
| Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School, Crawley | Good | Lower half · 32nd in West Sussex | — |
| Ifield Community College | School remains Good | Lower half · 33rd in West Sussex | 0.953 miles (2026) |
| The Gatwick School | Good | Lower half · 36th in West Sussex | — |
| Thomas Bennett Community College | Good | Lower half · 40th in West Sussex | — |
Private schools (4)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worth School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | Lower half · 7th in West Sussex | — |
| Atelier21 Future School | — | — | — |
| Copthorne Preparatory School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| Cottesmore School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (119 detached, 193 semi-detached, 425 terraced, 183 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Crawley. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Crawley →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 87% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 98%, on average across the 2,719 postcodes in RH10, RH11. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 3 outstanding; 1 strong or better in every area; 29 good, or expected standard; 1 requires improvement; 3 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.58 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 37 in West Sussex.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, West Sussex
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: West Sussex · Surrey.
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