Cypress Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · London, Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.358 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cypress Primary School is a primary school in London, Croydon for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 18 December 2024. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Cypress 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 | 0.358 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 Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.358 miles, the 2nd shortest of 64 Croydon primary schools with a published last distance, where the middle figure was 2.44 miles.
- The Reception distance in 2026 was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2023, with little change from year to year, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 108 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 84 offers went to first-choice families, and 24 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 4% 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
- Cypress Road, London, SE25 4AU
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 681 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 18 December 2024
Strengths
- “All staff and pupils are proud to be ‘Pegasus People’.”
- “Pupils understand what this means and they are rewarded for demonstrating the school’s values.”
- “As a result, children in early years are kind.”
To improve
- “However, the teaching of early writing does not ensure that pupils practise and develop writing fluency and transcription skills as frequently.”
- “This means that some gaps develop in pupils’ early writing, which hinder their progress with more complex writing tasks.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 February 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) | 57% | 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: 108 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 84 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.
- All Saints CofE Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- David Livingstone Academy 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Cyprian's Greek Orthodox Primary Academy 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Beulah Junior School 0.7 mi Requires improvement
- Beulah Infants' School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mark's Church of England Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rockmount Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whitehorse Manor Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published