Woodside Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.954 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Woodside Primary School is a primary school in Croydon for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 2 April 2025. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Woodside 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 | 3.954 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
- Reception 2026's last distance offered, 3.954 miles, was further than in 2025 and 2023: the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Among 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance, it was the 20th longest; the middle figure was 2.44 miles.
- Reception 2026 drew 43 first-choice applications for 54 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place and 11 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% 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
- Morland Road, Croydon, CR0 6NF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 426 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 2 April 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy, enjoy learning and feel safe at school.”
- “They know they have trusted adults that they can talk to about worries or concerns.”
- “This school inspires pupils to love learning.”
To improve
- “In a minority of subjects, key knowledge is not identified with the same degree of precision to clearly define what pupils should know and when they should learn it.”
- “This prevents some pupils, particularly disadvantaged pupils, from building the depth of knowledge they need.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 May 2025 (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) | 77% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 54 offers in total, 43 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.
- John Wood School & Nursery 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Robert Fitzroy Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Shirley Park Primary 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Heavers Farm Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- South Norwood Primary 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Broadmead Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Chad's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published