Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Croydon
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry938 applications · 210 places offered · 177 named it first
- 2026 4.5; Croydon median median 2.8
- 2025 4.7; Croydon median median 2.9
- 2024 6.5; Croydon median median 2.9
- 2023 7.0; Croydon median median 2.8
- 2022 7.3; Croydon median median 2.7
- 2021 7.9; Croydon median median 2.8
- 2020 8.5; Croydon median median 2.5
- 2019 9.6; Croydon median median 2.6
- 2018 9.8; Croydon median median 2.4
- 2017 10.2; Croydon median median 3.0
- 2016 11.0; Croydon median median 2.7
- 2015 11.4; Croydon median median 3.0
- 2014 11.4; Croydon median median 3.7
- This school
- Croydon median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 210 | 938 | 4.5 | 177 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2025 | 205 | 959 | 4.7 | 205 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 179 | 1,163 | 6.5 | 258 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2023 | 180 | 1,258 | 7.0 | 269 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2022 | 181 | 1,328 | 7.3 | 248 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2021 | 180 | 1,421 | 7.9 | 323 | 1.79 |
| Sep 2020 | 180 | 1,524 | 8.5 | 313 | 1.74 |
| Sep 2019 | 180 | 1,724 | 9.6 | 378 | 2.10 |
| Sep 2018 | 176 | 1,722 | 9.8 | 424 | 2.41 |
| Sep 2017 | 174 | 1,772 | 10.2 | 437 | 2.51 |
| Sep 2016 | 178 | 1,957 | 11.0 | 542 | 3.04 |
| Sep 2015 | 171 | 1,950 | 11.4 | 501 | 2.93 |
| Sep 2014 | 177 | 2,019 | 11.4 | 585 | 3.31 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 178 | 52.9 | 61% | 80% | – |
| 2024/25 | 163 | 52.3 | 57% | 75% | – |
| 2023/24 | 177 | 51.4 | 55% | 72% | +0.24 |
| 2022/23 | 177 | 48.3 | 46% | 71% | −0.10 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Harris City Academy Crystal PalaceThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place 52.9Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · CroydonGood20222.7applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · CroydonNot yet inspected2.8applications per place 49.0Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · LambethGood20234.9applications per place 46.9Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Croydon20264.3applications per place 39.0Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · CroydonStandards maintained20252.2applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · SouthwarkOutstanding20236.9applications per place 56.9Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · BromleyRemains Outstanding20244.4applications per place 61.7Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Croydon20262.1applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135311 · 306/6906
- Trust
- Harris Federation
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,300 pupils · 1,191 on roll
- Free school meals
- 39.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2007
- Replaced
- Harris City Technology College (URN 101850)
- Address
- Maberley Road, Upper Norwood, London, SE19 2JH
- Local authority
- Croydon
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources