Oasis Academy Shirley Park Primary
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Croydon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.465 miles
Published by Croydon Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Oasis Academy Shirley Park Primary is a primary school in Croydon for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Oasis Academy Shirley Park Primary 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 | 3.465 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 3.465 miles away, the 26th longest of the 64 Croydon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception 2026 last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2023; distances have swung sharply, with the biggest move from 2023 to 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 43 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 48.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.6% across 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
- Long Lane, Croydon, CR0 7AR
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 589 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 48.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 48 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.
- St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Ryelands 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodside Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Monks Orchard Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- South Norwood Primary 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- John Wood School & Nursery 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Robert Fitzroy Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mark's Church of England Primary Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published