Park Hill Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.487 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Park Hill Infant School is a primary school in Croydon for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 8 November 2023. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Park Hill 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 | 0.487 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 0.487 miles from the school, the 9th shortest of 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further than in 2025 and about the same as in 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years.
- Reception 2026 had 129 first-choice applications for 90 offers: 87 offers went to first-choice families, and 42 first-choice families were not offered a place.
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
- Stanhope Road, Croydon, CR0 5NS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 270 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 8 November 2023
Strengths
- “At Park Hill, pupils are lively, enthusiastic and demonstrate positive attitudes towards their learning.”
- “The school’s core values are enacted by everyone.”
- “Pupils engage well with each other and there is a strong mutual respect between pupils and adults.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 129 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 87 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.
- Park Hill Junior School 0.0 mi Outstanding
- Ark Oval Primary Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Heathfield Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St. Mary's Catholic Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Howard Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Krishna Avanti Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Harris Primary Academy Haling Park 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published