Quest Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · South Croydon, Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.413 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Quest Primary School is a primary school in South Croydon, Croydon for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 February 2023. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Quest 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 | 4.413 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 Reception place for 2026 went to a child living 4.413 miles away, the 16th longest of 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance has swung sharply, most between 2023 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 21 first-choice applications for 22 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 44% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Farnborough Avenue, South Croydon, CR2 8HD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 199 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this warm and caring school.”
- “They are well looked after by staff who help them to feel safe, secure and happy at school.”
- “Pupils trust adults and know that they can talk to them if they have any worries.”
To improve
- “Leaders’ effective and well-targeted work to improve the curriculum has not had time to make a positive difference to pupils’ outcomes in the national assessments at the end of Year 6.”
- “However, in some subjects, leaders’ curriculum thinking has not been fully refined.”
- “Because of this, teaching does not deepen and build on pupils’ understanding as effectively in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 April 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) | 44% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 21 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 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Selsdon Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Courtwood Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Applegarth Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Greenvale Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Good Shepherd Catholic Primary and Nursery School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Castle Hill Academy 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Harris Primary Academy Benson 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published