Atwood Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · South Croydon, Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.445 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Atwood Primary School is a primary school in South Croydon, Croydon for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 November 2023. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Atwood 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 | 2.445 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
- 76% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Croydon.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 2.445 miles away, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 54 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 4.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 14.8% across the 8 nearest primary 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
- Limpsfield Road, Sanderstead, South Croydon, CR2 9EE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 447 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are settled, happy and safe here.”
- “They enjoy school and rarely miss a day.”
- “This allows the school to provide well-placed support and care to pupils.”
To improve
- “However, much of this revised subject content is newly introduced and sometimes teaching is not as routinely focused on delivering the new curriculum content.”
- “On occasion, tasks, explanations and learning do not build upon what pupils already know about a topic and result in gaps in pupils’ learning which are not addressed.”
- “Consequently, sometimes pupils find it difficult to recall prior knowledge or use it to understand new ideas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 December 2023 (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) | 76% | 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: 54 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 54 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.
- Gresham Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Kenley Primary School 1.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Harris Primary Academy Kenley 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greenvale Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ridgeway Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Selsdon Primary and Nursery School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Hayes Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School (Purley) 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published