Downsview Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · London, Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.832 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Downsview Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in London, Croydon for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 June 2024. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Downsview Primary and Nursery 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 | 0.832 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.832 miles from the school, the 13th shortest of 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was about the same as in 2025 and nearer than in 2023, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 91 first-choice applications for 90 offers: 75 offers went to first-choice families, and 16 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 81% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% reached the higher standard (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
- Biggin Way, Upper Norwood, London, SE19 3XE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 620 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be part of this welcoming and inclusive school.”
- “Pupils are happy and kind to one another.”
- “The school’s one golden rule of ‘respect’ is lived by adults and pupils.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, the implementation of the curriculum does not match leaders’ clear, high expectations.”
- “However, on occasions adaptions made to their learning and expectations of what they can achieve are not as effective as they should be.”
- “Sometimes, for the weakest readers, the focus on developing their fluency is not as sharp as it could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 2024 (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) | 81% | 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: 91 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 75 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 Cyprian's Greek Orthodox Primary Academy 0.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Joseph's RC Junior School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
- David Livingstone Academy 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Joseph's RC Infant School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kensington Avenue Primary School 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Rockmount Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- All Saints CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published