Graded inspection · Mar 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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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 entry232 applications · 93 places offered · 65 named it first
- 2026 2.5; Croydon median median 2.8
- 2025 2.2; Croydon median median 2.9
- 2024 2.5; Croydon median median 2.9
- 2023 2.1; Croydon median median 2.8
- 2022 2.1; Croydon median median 2.7
- 2021 1.9; Croydon median median 2.8
- 2020 1.6; Croydon median median 2.5
- 2019 1.4; Croydon median median 2.6
- 2018 1.7; Croydon median median 2.4
- 2017 2.0; Croydon median median 3.0
- 2016 1.8; Croydon median median 2.7
- 2015 1.6; Croydon median median 3.0
- 2014 1.9; Croydon median median 3.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Croydon median
Dashed bars: as The Archbishop Lanfranc School (URN 101826), the previous school.
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 | 93 | 232 | 2.5 | 65 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2025 | 124 | 272 | 2.2 | 93 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2024 | 108 | 269 | 2.5 | 65 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2023 | 148 | 313 | 2.1 | 89 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2022 | 140 | 298 | 2.1 | 72 | 0.51 |
| Sep 2021 | 171 | 317 | 1.9 | 82 | 0.48 |
| Sep 2020 | 199 | 322 | 1.6 | 81 | 0.41 |
| Sep 2019 | 200 | 280 | 1.4 | 65 | 0.33 |
| Sep 2018 | 149 | 246 | 1.7 | 42 | 0.28 |
| Sep 2017 | 100 | 199 | 2.0 | 23 | 0.23 |
| Sep 2016 | 106 | 193 | 1.8 | 29 | 0.27 |
| Sep 2015 | 132 | 206 | 1.6 | 39 | 0.30 |
| Sep 2014 * | 101 | 193 | 1.9 | 42 | 0.42 |
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.) | 159 | 47.2 | 50% | 65% | – |
| 2024/25 | 162 | 39.1 | 32% | 54% | – |
| 2023/24 | 155 | 41.2 | 37% | 52% | +0.10 |
| 2022/23 | 122 | 41.9 | 34% | 56% | +0.14 |
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
- The Archbishop Lanfranc AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 47.2Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · MertonOutstanding20222.5applications per place 54.4Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · CroydonRemains Outstanding20232.8applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · MertonOutstanding20242.2applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · LambethGraded · no overall grade202415.6applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Croydon20262.1applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Croydon20262.1applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · SuttonRemains Outstanding20226.0applications per place 82.0Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.4 km · MertonRemains Outstanding20242.8applications per place 50.9Attainment 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
- 141210 · 306/4003
- Trust
- The Bec Trust
- Capacity
- 1,039 pupils · 758 on roll
- Free school meals
- 50.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2014
- Replaced
- The Archbishop Lanfranc School (URN 101826)
- Address
- Mitcham Road, Croydon, CR9 3AS
- Local authority
- Croydon
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources