Courtwood Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.301 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Courtwood Primary School is a primary school in Croydon for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 December 2022. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Courtwood 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 | 4.301 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 child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 4.301 miles away, the 17th longest of 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- 2026 Reception entry saw 24 first-choice applications for 26 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% 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
- Courtwood Lane, Addington, Croydon, CR0 9HX
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 215 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 December 2022
Strengths
- “They show kindness to each other.”
- “Pupils build positive friendships with their peers.”
- “They enjoy learning because teachers make lessons fun and engaging.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, leaders have not secured teachers’ subject-specific knowledge.”
- “As a result, the delivery of the curriculum aims in some subjects is not securely implemented.”
- “This means that pupils are not consistently given the opportunity to deepen or apply what they know or understand in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 March 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) | 67% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 24 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.
- Forestdale Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Quest Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Greenvale Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Selsdon Primary and Nursery School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Applegarth Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Good Shepherd Catholic Primary and Nursery School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Tudor Academy 1.1 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Castle Hill Academy 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published