Chestnut Park Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.385 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chestnut Park Primary School is a primary school in Croydon for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 30 October 2024. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Chestnut Park 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 | 0.385 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 Reception place in 2026 went to a child living 0.385 miles away, the 3rd shortest of the 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That Reception 2026 distance was nearer than in 2025 and about the same as in 2023; the biggest swing came between 2024 and 2025.
- For Reception 2026 there were 112 first-choice applications for 86 offers; 85 offers went to first-choice families, and 27 first-choice families (24%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 44% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 11% 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
- 49 St James Road, Croydon, CR0 2UR
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 608 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 30 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this school, where they are well cared for and achieve well.”
- “The school includes pupils’ families in the school community, for example through events such as a summer carnival to celebrate pupils’ backgrounds through shared music, dance and food.”
- “Leaders provide coffee mornings where many parents share their views and hear about important issues, including pupils’ safety in the local area and online.”
To improve
- “However, the school focuses less well on helping pupils to revisit content learned much earlier in the curriculum and understand how it links with new learning.”
- “Pupils sometimes find this earlier content difficult to recall, which can limit how deeply they understand concepts.”
- “However, the school is developing its approach to checking children’s understanding in the early years.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 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) | 44% | 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: 112 first-preference applications, 86 offers in total, 85 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.
- Elmwood Infant School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Elmwood Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- St. Mary's Catholic Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- St Mary's Catholic Infant School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Ecclesbourne Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Harris Primary Academy Croydon 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Broadmead Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- The Crescent Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published