Croft Community School
Special / other · Stanley · DH9 8PR
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 13 January 2026 · report published 28 May 2026
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316 pupils · 100% of 281 capacity
- School type
- Community special school
- Age range
- 4–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 58.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- URN
- 114340
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
26 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
16 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
94% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 January 2026: Needs attention
- 12 October 2021: Good
- 18 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 21 November 2018: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 5 December 2017: Requires improvement
- 17 June 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 20 October 2015: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.