The Quest Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · South Croydon, Croydon
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.474 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Quest Academy is a secondary school in South Croydon, Croydon for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 12 March 2024. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2026 entry.
The Quest Academy 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 3.474 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last Year 7 child offered a place lived 3.474 miles from the school, the 7th shortest of 15 Croydon secondary schools with a published last distance.
- Year 7 last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 5 years with a published distance, nearer than in 2025.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 66 first-choice applications for 104 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 38 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 23% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Croydon.
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
- Farnborough Avenue, South Croydon, CR2 8HD
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 853 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 12 March 2024
Strengths
- “The school strives to support pupils through its ‘LEARN’ values.”
- “Pupils know these values and are taught about how they are important to their lives, both in school and more widely.”
- “The school has built an ambitious curriculum.”
To improve
- “In the classroom, this ambitious curriculum is not realised well enough for pupils in Years 7 to 11.”
- “This means that, in these year groups, pupils do not achieve highly across subjects.”
- “However, in a few instances, teaching does not encourage pupils to expect the most of themselves in their learning, leading to some pupils opting out of tasks set in class.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 23% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 37.5 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C- | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 66 first-preference applications, 104 offers in total, 66 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Croydon.
- Coloma Convent Girls' School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shirley High School Performing Arts College 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Coombe Wood School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Shirley Park 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Orchard Park High School 2.3 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Riddlesdown Collegiate 2.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Meridian High School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published