Smitham Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Coulsdon, Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.407 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Smitham Primary School is a primary school in Coulsdon, Croydon for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 April 2023. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Smitham Primary 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 | 1.407 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 1.407 miles away, further than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years.
- Reception 2026 had 76 first-choice applications for 87 offers; 71 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 62% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Croydon.
- In 2024/25, 12% of pupils reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%).
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
- Portnalls Road, Coulsdon, CR5 3DE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 654 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are rightly proud of their school.”
- “They feel safe and are kept safe.”
- “Pupils are respectful to one another and demonstrate the school’s ‘SMART’ behaviours by being sensible, well-mannered, accepting, respectful and trustworthy.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, these checks are not consistently focused on the most important knowledge that pupils need to learn and remember.”
- “This means that some pupils do not remember the key content.”
- “As a result, some pupils’ understanding in these subjects is not as secure as it could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 62% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 76 first-preference applications, 87 offers in total, 71 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.
- St Aidan's Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chipstead Valley Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Woodcote Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Byron 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Coulsdon CofE Primary School 1.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Beaumont Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- New Valley Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Keston Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published