Carrington School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Redhill, Surrey
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Surrey County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
Year 7 last distance offered, 2024–2026 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Carrington School is a secondary school in Redhill, Surrey for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 May 2023. Surrey has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Carrington 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Of its pupils, 29% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.3% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Surrey.
- For Year 7 2026 there were 118 first-choice applications for 213 offers: 0.6 first choices per offer, the 4th lowest of 55 Surrey secondary schools.
- Every Year 7 2026 applicant was offered a place, including every first-choice family, and 95 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 43% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Surrey.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Surrey schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Noke Drive, Redhill, RH1 4AD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Surrey
- Pupils on roll
- 1,012 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud of their school.”
- “They know that staff work very hard to support them.”
- “This includes pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), who get the support they need to participate fully in the life of the school.”
To improve
- “They know that some pupils did less well in the past and are adamant that this must improve.”
- “In the past, the proportion of pupils studying a modern foreign language was too small.”
- “However, teachers sometimes set work which is less demanding or unnecessarily repetitive.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 June 2023 (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) | 43% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 45 | 46 |
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: 118 first-preference applications, 213 offers in total, 118 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 Surrey.
- St Bede's School 0.8 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Merstham Park School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Reigate School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Oakwood School 4.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- de Stafford School 4.8 mi Good Last distance published
- The Beacon School 5.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Warlingham School 6.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oxted School 7.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published