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Chaffinch Brook School

Special schoolAges 5–16Academy

Croydon, CR0 6NA · Croydon local authority

Croydon’s School Grade B+ better than 70% of towns in England

How full
98 pupils
109% of its 90 places
Free school meals
83%
83 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Chaffinch Brook School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 98 pupils for 90 places
  • 83% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, May 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CR0 6) sold for a median £400,000; Croydon’s is £420,500

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 14 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Chaffinch Brook beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 6.1

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Croydon avg 46.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Chaffinch Brook 6.1

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Croydon avg 46%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Chaffinch Brook 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
9.9
2024/25
21.5
2025/26
6.1

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.40: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Croydon 64% · a standard pass

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.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

93 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.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
12.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
79.6%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 11%Boys 89%
Its letter

No letter for Chaffinch Brook School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, May 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Chaffinch Brook School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in CR0 6, the school’s postcode sector

Croydon property prices →
£400,000
median sale, 682 sales in 36 months · Croydon £420,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025CR0 6Croydon
CR0 6Croydon

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£576K
Semi-detached
£471K
Terraced
£438K
Flat
£277K
CR0 6Croydon

Homes in CR0 6 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

40 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−B−C−A+CBC+C−B−A−BC+A−C−DA+A−B−B−DA−CC−A−AB−AA−B+CC+B+CAChaffinch Brook School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Croydon, CR0 6NA

Chaffinch Brook School: common questions

What is Chaffinch Brook School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (May 2024).

How much do houses cost near Chaffinch Brook School?

Homes in its postcode sector, CR0 6, sold for a median £400,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (682 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.