Harris Primary Academy Kenley
Croydon, CR8 5NF · Croydon local authority
Croydon’s School Grade B+ better than 70% of towns in England
What stands out about Harris Primary Academy Kenley
- Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 79% of England’s primary schools
- 73% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11 points above England’s schools
- Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
- 94% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (49 of 52)
- Homes in its postcode sector (CR8 5) sold for a median £500,000; Croydon’s is £420,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 73%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 79% 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 107, maths 106 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 14 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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 Harris Primary Academy Kenley?
94% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (10), 2020 (7), 2021 (16), 2022 (3), 2025 (6), 2026 (3). 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. Harris Federation 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
94% 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 2025430 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
Harris Primary Academy Kenley’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.
Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), June 2025.
Living near Harris Primary Academy Kenley
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CR8 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 CR8 5 sell for well over 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
15 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Croydon, CR8 5NF
Harris Primary Academy Kenley: common questions
Is Harris Primary Academy Kenley a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 79% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 73% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025.
How hard is it to get into Harris Primary Academy Kenley?
For September 2026, 52 families put Harris Primary Academy Kenley first and 49 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.
What is Harris Primary Academy Kenley’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).
How much do houses cost near Harris Primary Academy Kenley?
Homes in its postcode sector, CR8 5, sold for a median £500,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (340 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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