St John's CofE Primary School
Croydon, CR0 5EL · Croydon local authority
Croydon’s School Grade B+ better than 70% of towns in England
What stands out about St John's CofE Primary School
- Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 96% of England’s primary schools
- 85% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 23 points above England’s schools
- 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- 83% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (59 of 71)
- Homes in its postcode sector (CR0 5) sold for a median £385,000; Croydon’s is £420,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 85%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 96% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Croydon avg 67%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at St John's CofE Primary School?
83% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (27), 2020 (44), 2021 (33), 2022 (49), 2023 (39), 2024 (12), 2025 (31), 2026 (12). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Croydon council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
83% got their first choice
Croydon and Croydon, side by side
2023–2025All 79 graded primaries in Croydon. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Croydon’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heathfield Academy | A+ | 33% | 91% |
| Winterbourne Junior Girls' School | A+ | 46% | 88% |
| Applegarth Academy | A+ | 49% | 86% |
| St John's CofE Primary School | A+ | 8% | 85% |
| Beaumont Primary School | A+ | 17% | 83% |
| Harris Primary Academy Haling Park | A | 27% | 81% |
| Winterbourne Boys' Academy | A | 33% | 81% |
| Regina Coeli Catholic Primary School | A | 24% | 81% |
| Oasis Academy Byron | A | 19% | 80% |
| Harris Primary Academy Purley Way | A | 35% | 80% |
| Krishna Avanti Primary School | A | 7% | 80% |
| Rockmount Primary School | A | 19% | 79% |
| Gonville Academy | A | 22% | 79% |
| Park Hill Junior School | A | 22% | 79% |
| St Aidan's Catholic Primary School | A | 6% | 77% |
| Margaret Roper Catholic Primary School | A | 14% | 76% |
| Forest Academy | A | 60% | 76% |
| Gresham Primary School | A− | 3% | 75% |
| St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School | A− | 12% | 75% |
| Paxton Academy Sports And Science | A− | 43% | 75% |
| Forestdale Primary School | A− | 18% | 74% |
| Downsview Primary and Nursery School | A− | 20% | 74% |
| Harris Primary Academy Benson | A− | 31% | 74% |
| St. Mary's Catholic Junior School | A− | 23% | 74% |
| St Chad's Catholic Primary School | A− | 27% | 74% |
| Greenvale Primary School | A− | 7% | 73% |
| Ridgeway Primary School | A− | 4% | 73% |
| Ecclesbourne Primary School | A− | 32% | 73% |
| David Livingstone Academy | A− | 33% | 73% |
| Harris Primary Academy Kenley | A− | 16% | 73% |
| St Peter's Primary School | A− | 18% | 73% |
| Tudor Academy | A− | 46% | 72% |
| Oasis Academy Ryelands | A− | 31% | 72% |
| Keston Primary School | A− | 13% | 72% |
| Woodcote Primary School | A− | 16% | 72% |
| Smitham Primary School | B+ | 15% | 70% |
| Chipstead Valley Primary School | B+ | 7% | 70% |
| Castle Hill Academy | B+ | 67% | 70% |
| Monks Orchard Primary School | B+ | 39% | 69% |
| The Hayes Primary School | B+ | 6% | 68% |
| Fairchildes Primary School | B+ | 37% | 68% |
| Harris Primary Academy Croydon | B+ | 35% | 68% |
| Ark Oval Primary Academy | B | 34% | 66% |
| Aerodrome Primary Academy | B | 31% | 66% |
| St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School | B | 20% | 65% |
| Atwood Primary School | B | 5% | 65% |
| Howard Primary School | B− | 35% | 64% |
| Orchard Way Primary School | B− | 23% | 64% |
| Purley Oaks Primary School | B− | 32% | 63% |
| Broadmead Primary School | B− | 49% | 63% |
| Woodside Primary School | B− | 34% | 63% |
| Cypress Primary School | B− | 17% | 63% |
| Norbury Manor Primary School | B− | 32% | 62% |
| Oasis Academy Shirley Park | B− | 51% | 62% |
| West Thornton Primary School | B− | 35% | 62% |
| Elmwood Junior School | B− | 41% | 61% |
| Whitehorse Manor Junior School | B− | 46% | 61% |
| New Valley Primary School | B− | 30% | 61% |
| Robert Fitzroy Academy | C+ | 25% | 60% |
| Kensington Avenue Primary School | C+ | 23% | 60% |
| St Joseph's RC Junior School | C+ | 35% | 58% |
| Coulsdon CofE Primary School | C | 8% | 57% |
| The Crescent Primary School | C | 40% | 57% |
| Good Shepherd Catholic Primary and Nursery School | C | 31% | 56% |
| Courtwood Primary School | C | 31% | 56% |
| The Minster Junior School | C | 38% | 56% |
| St Cyprian's Greek Orthodox Primary Academy | C | 17% | 54% |
| Rowdown Primary School | C | 49% | 54% |
| South Norwood Primary | C | 39% | 54% |
| Selsdon Primary and Nursery School | C− | 25% | 52% |
| Heavers Farm Primary School | C− | 36% | 51% |
| Christ Church CofE Primary School (Purley) | C− | 29% | 51% |
| John Wood School & Nursery | C− | 30% | 51% |
| Kenley Primary School | C− | 25% | 49% |
| Beulah Junior School | C− | 49% | 48% |
| Chestnut Park Primary School | D | 32% | 45% |
| St Mark's Church of England Primary Academy | D | 30% | 41% |
| All Saints CofE Primary School | D | 57% | 40% |
| Quest Primary School | D | 40% | 40% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025419 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
St John's CofE Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting May 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, September 2021.
Living near St John's CofE Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CR0 5, the school’s postcode sector
Croydon property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in CR0 5 sell for a little under Croydon’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
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St John's CofE Primary School: common questions
Is St John's CofE Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 96% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 85% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in May 2026.
How hard is it to get into St John's CofE Primary School?
For September 2026, 71 families put St John's CofE Primary School first and 59 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.
What is St John's CofE Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near St John's CofE Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, CR0 5, sold for a median £385,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (400 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Croydon’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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