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Schools in the Croydon local authority

Croydon has 157 schools listed on OfferDay across 10 towns.

5 nursery schools · 87 primary schools · 23 secondary schools · 3 sixth forms and colleges · 21 special and alternative provision schools · 17 independent schools · 1 other establishment

About schools in Croydon

Croydon lists 157 schools, most of them primary schools. Its 23 secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. Older students can carry on at three sixth forms and colleges.

Ofsted inspects every school listed here. Its newer reports judge a school across several areas rather than giving one overall grade, while older reports still carry the previous single grade, so read the framework and the date on each page before you set two schools side by side. Where results have been published you will also find key stage 2 scores for the primary schools and Attainment 8 for the secondary schools. An inspection or a results table captures a school at one past moment, so use this page to draw up a shortlist and then visit.

Key stage 2, 2024/25
68%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 82 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
44.4
average Attainment 8 score, across the 28 schools with published results

Top schools in Croydon

Ranked by the latest published results; primary and secondary schools are measured differently and never compared with each other.

Primary

  1. 1 Beaumont Primary School 90%
  2. 2 Heathfield Academy 90%
  3. 3 Oasis Academy Byron 89%
  4. 4 Winterbourne Junior Girls' School 89%
  5. 5 Applegarth Academy 88%
  6. 6 David Livingstone Academy 88%
  7. 7 Paxton Academy Sports And Science 87%
  8. 8 Gresham Primary School 86%

Secondary

  1. 1 Coloma Convent Girls' School 57.4
  2. 2 Coombe Wood School 52.6
  3. 3 Harris City Academy Crystal Palace 52.3
  4. 4 Riddlesdown Collegiate 50.7
  5. 5 Harris Academy South Norwood 48.2
  6. 6 Harris Academy Purley 46.8
  7. 7 Norbury High School for Girls 46.4
  8. 8 Woodcote High School 46.1

Schools by town

The count beside each town is the number of its schools under Croydon.

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Croydon

How many schools does Croydon have?
OfferDay lists 157 schools in Croydon, including 87 primary schools and 23 secondary schools.
Who inspects schools in Croydon?
Every school in Croydon is inspected by Ofsted. Newer reports grade several areas of a school separately on a report card, while older reports carry a single overall grade, so check the framework and the date on each page before you compare two schools.
How are schools in Croydon ranked?
OfferDay ranks an area's schools only where enough of them have published results to compare fairly, and Croydon does not have enough to rank. Compare its schools on their Ofsted reports and, where results are published, the figures shown against each school on this page.
How many towns are in the Croydon local authority?
OfferDay groups the Croydon schools across ten towns, listed in the schools-by-town section on this page. Any school with no town recorded in the national register is listed separately, grouped by phase, so every school in the local authority is reachable.

School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. Information on this page was last updated on 24 July 2026.