School profile
Croft Community School
Greencroft Road End, Annfield Plain, Stanley, DH9 8PR
Overview
Croft Community School is a special / send school (community special school) in Stanley, North East, for pupils aged 4–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Community special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 4–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 281
- Pupils on roll
- 316
- URN
- 114340
Admissions
- Local authority
- County Durham
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Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 96 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 101 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 4% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 13 January 2026 · Published 28 May 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Needs attention
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 12 October 2021 · Published 5 December 2021
Overall effectiveness: Good
Safeguarding was effective: Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
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Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Greencroft Road End, Annfield Plain, Stanley, DH9 8PR
- Local authority
- County Durham
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