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Oasis Academy Coulsdon

Secondary · Croydon · CR5 1ES

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Good

Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection

Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.

Inspected 20 March 2024

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At a glance

927 pupils · 99% of 934 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Academy sponsor led
Age range
11–16
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
27.1% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
5.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
17.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
7.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
http://www.oasisacademycoulsdon.org
URN
135654

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 176 families named it first for 163 Year 7 places, 1.08 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2026 entry went to 1.882 miles; distance decided places in 9 of the 12 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2015 to 2026. An ungraded Ofsted inspection on 20 March 2024 confirmed its earlier grade, Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 7.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

1.08 first-choice applications per place

163 places offered · 176 first-choice applications · oversubscribed

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Places by distance, last offered at 1.882 miles for 2026 entry.

Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 1.882 miles

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

GCSE results (2024/2025)

184 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score
44.8
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
70.1%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
51.6%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
4.1
England 4.1

Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Attainment 8, 2024/2025

This school44.8
Median of its 12 closest peers43.5
Croydon average44.5
England46.1

On attainment 8, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.

They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Clyst Vale Community CollegeExeter · 149 miles awayGood44.5
St Anselm's Catholic School, CanterburyCanterbury · 53 miles awayGood39.4
Hilbre High SchoolWirral · 193 miles awayNeeds attention39
High Tunstall College of ScienceHartlepool · 239 miles awayRequires improvement44.3
Honywood SchoolColchester · 53 miles awayGood46.3
E-Act Bourne End AcademyBourne End · 32 miles awayGood38
Langley SchoolSolihull · 106 miles awayGood47.6
Amersham SchoolAmersham · 33 miles awayExpected standard49.7
Hurworth SchoolDarlington · 228 miles awayGood49.1
Larkmead SchoolAbingdon · 57 miles awayGood39.4
The Priory Pembroke AcademyLincoln · 135 miles awayExpected standard41
de Stafford SchoolCaterham · 1 miles awayGood42.7

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Special educational needs

Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.

Provision type: Resourced provision.

Resourced provision
28 of 30 places taken nearly full

Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 54% (Croydon 22%, England 59%) · Black African 8% (Croydon 18%, England 5%) · Any other White background 6% (Croydon 9%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 6% (Croydon 6%, England 3%) · Black Caribbean 5% (Croydon 9%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 5% (Croydon 4%, England 2%) · Not recorded 3% (Croydon 3%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 2% (Croydon 5%, England 4%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Croydon 2%, England 2%) · Any other Asian background 2% (Croydon 5%, England 3%) · Any other Black background 2% (Croydon 4%, England 1%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Croydon 5%, England 5%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Croydon 4%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Croydon 2%, England 1%) · White Irish 1% (Croydon 0%, England 0%) · other groups together 0%

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
7.5%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
17.6%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

9.96 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Croydon: 12.91 suspensions and 0.14 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
20.6
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

78% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 14% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

78.2% of teachers took sickness absence, 9.1 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £58,187; 11.5% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2024-25)

This school£7,717
Typical secondary school£7,846

Where the money went (2024-25)

Share of spending, with the median for secondary schools in brackets: Staff 76% (77%) · premises 5% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 9% (6%) · supplies and services 10% (11%) · educational supplies 6% (6%) · bought-in professional services 1% (1%) · catering 5% (3%)

Reserves (2024-25)

Revenue reserve £0; in-year balance +£1,878,000

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, DfE · how spending is compared

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training
91%
Continuing in education
88%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
2%

Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.

Inspection history since 2015

Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher34.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications18.2%18.1%
In managerial or professional work41.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways13.2%18.1%
Residents in very good health47.5%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier93.9%62.3%
Social housing1.3%17.1%
Privately rented4.8%20.5%
Detached houses34.7%22.9%
Flats3.2%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms25.7%21.1%
Households with no car or van11.1%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01001022 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£524,000182 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£457,500–£580,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (44)£614,000
Semi-detached (93)£535,000
Terraced (36)£423,000
Flat (9)£245,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Year 7 cutoff distance (3.03 km, 2026 entry): 1,828 sales, median £490,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
5an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
7an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
22an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
4an urban school averages 6.1

A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted

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