Elmwood Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.533 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Elmwood Infant School is a primary school in Croydon for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 17 July 2024. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Elmwood Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 5.533 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 5.533 miles away, 12th longest of 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle 2.44 miles).
- Its Reception last distance swung sharply, most of all from 2023 to 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 84 first-choice applications for 94 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 10 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Croydon schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Lodge Road, Lodge Road, Croydon, CR0 2PL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 357 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 17 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and proud members of the Elmwood community.”
- “Each pupil’s uniqueness is valued.”
- “Diversity is celebrated throughout the school.”
To improve
- “However, across the curriculum, the school’s intent and expectations for subjects are, in a few instances, not fully realised.”
- “For example, on occasions, the activities that pupils complete are not as sharply linked to the intended learning as they could be.”
- “In addition, checks of what pupils know and can remember are, at times, not ensuring that errors and misconceptions in learning are consistently identified and addressed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 84 first-preference applications, 94 offers in total, 84 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Croydon.
- Elmwood Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Chestnut Park Primary School 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ecclesbourne Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Harris Primary Academy Croydon 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St. Mary's Catholic Junior School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Broadmead Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- The Crescent Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published