Primary
Desmond Anderson Primary Academy
Anderson Road, Tilgate, Crawley, RH10 5EA
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 434 of 440 places
- Local authority
- West Sussex
- Nursery
- Yes
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trust
- REACH2 ACADEMY TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected June 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
October 2019
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
SATs results
51%
104.0
13th of 22 by our score, among the primary schools in Crawley we can score - 30 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 102 |
| Average reading score | 104 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 51% |
| Working at a higher standard | 2% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 49% |
| 23/24 | 47% |
| 24/25 | 51% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 104.0 |
| 23/24 | 101.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 103.0 |
| 23/24 | 100.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
Anderson Road, Tilgate, Crawley, RH10 5EA
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
West Sussex admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Managey Powys
- Address
- Anderson Road, Tilgate, Crawley, RH10 5EA
- Telephone
- 01293525596