Ridgeway Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · South Croydon, Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
15.547 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ridgeway Primary School is a primary school in South Croydon, Croydon for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 March 2024. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Ridgeway 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 | 15.547 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 Reception 2026 last distance offered was 15.547 miles, the 2nd longest of 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.44 miles).
- That distance was further than in 2025 and 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 72 first-choice applications for 80 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% 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
- Southcote Road, South Croydon, CR2 0EQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 626 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 March 2024
Strengths
- “The school strives for every child to be successful.”
- “For example, they develop pupils’ creativity, collaboration, and sense of responsibility.”
- “The school is warm, inclusive, and welcoming.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the key content that pupils need to know and the order they learn it is not identified as clearly.”
- “When this happens, pupils struggle to build on previous learning securely.”
- “This limits pupils’ development of deeper subject-specific knowledge and skills.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 May 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) | 70% | 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: 72 first-preference applications, 80 offers in total, 72 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.
- Purley Oaks Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Peter's Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Gresham Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Harris Primary Academy Haling Park 1.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Regina Coeli Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School (Purley) 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Selsdon Primary and Nursery School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Atwood Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published