Crowmoor Primary School

Primary school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Inadequate (Jan 2023). Special measures.

Latest graded inspection

Inspected 24 January 2023, report published 23 May 2023, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.

Special measures. Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern.

This grade was given to Crowmoor Primary School and Nursery (its Ofsted page), the school this one replaced when it became an academy. Crowmoor Primary School hasn’t been inspected under its own name yet, so Ofsted’s page for it shows no grade.

Inadequate overall. The lowest grade. The school had serious problems. 2% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Inadequate.

Grades for each area
Area	Grade
Quality of education	Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes	Requires improvement
Personal development	Good
Leadership and management	Inadequate
Early years	Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective	Yes

These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.

Next inspection: around January 2027

The last inspection was in January 2023. Schools are usually inspected about every four years. That’s within the next six months.

An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2028 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.

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Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.