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St Giles CofE Primary School

Primary · Haywards Heath · RH17 7AY

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Good (2019)

Last grade Ofsted published, no newer grade exists

Ofsted graded this school Good in 2019. Every inspection since has been ungraded, and an ungraded inspection cannot change a grade. The most recent found “Standards maintained”. Ofsted's current data file lists only graded inspections from September 2019 onwards, so this grade has dropped out of it, but it is still the school's grade of record, and still on Ofsted's own report page. It is old, so weigh it against the more recent evidence on this page.

Inspected 24 April 2019

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At a glance

114 pupils · 81% of 140 capacity

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
4.4% of pupils
English as additional language
1.8% of pupils
SEN support
21.9% of pupils
EHC plan
0% of pupils
Website
http://www.st-giles.w-sussex.sch.uk
URN
126057

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.95 first-choice applications per place

20 places offered · 19 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 3701.51 m (≈2.30 mi)

measured in a straight line.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

15 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
33%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
20%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
104
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
102
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school33%
Median of its 12 closest peers69%
West Sussex average59.1%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
West Bretton Junior and Infant SchoolWakefield · 190 miles awayExpected standard50%
Mawgan-In-Pydar Primary SchoolNewquay · 221 miles awayGood44%
Ampney Crucis Church of England Primary SchoolCirencester · 93 miles awayGood73%
Birch Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolColchester · 66 miles awayGood55%
Keinton Mandeville Primary SchoolSomerton · 114 miles awayGood71%
Payhembury Church of England Primary SchoolExeter · 143 miles awayGood76%
Wilby Church of England Primary SchoolEye · 104 miles awayGood79%
Barby Church of England Primary SchoolRugby · 102 miles awayGood67%
Castlemorton Church of England Primary SchoolMalvern · 119 miles awayGood71%
Kingsland CofE SchoolLeominster · 146 miles awayGood76%
All Saints Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, DatchworthHertfordshire · 57 miles awayGood67%
Staunton-on-Wye Endowed Primary SchoolHereford · 144 miles awayGood56%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.5%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
9.1%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
17.8
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

75% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 12% moved to another state school · 12% 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

This school£7,043
Typical primary school£6,959

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.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher43.6%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications12.4%18.1%
In managerial or professional work46.8%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways10.3%18.1%
Residents in very good health52.7%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier79.1%62.3%
Social housing10.8%17.1%
Privately rented10.1%20.5%
Detached houses47.8%22.9%
Flats6%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms41.3%21.1%
Households with no car or van6.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01031764 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,147 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£615,00039 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£481,000–£844,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (18)£831,000
Semi-detached (15)£567,500
Terraced (5)£480,000

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (3.70 km, 2026 entry): 104 sales, median £595,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
1a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
1a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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