Beckmead College
Croydon, SE25 5RR · Croydon local authority
Croydon’s School Grade B+ better than 70% of towns in England
What stands out about Beckmead College
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- 55% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, April 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SE25 5) sold for a median £360,000; Croydon’s is £420,500
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 23 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Beckmead College beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 6
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Croydon avg 46.4
Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%
A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Croydon avg 46%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-2.75: 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).
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 202584 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
No letter for Beckmead College
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, April 2024.
Living near Beckmead College
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SE25 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 SE25 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
46 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Croydon, SE25 5RR
Beckmead College: common questions
What is Beckmead College’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (April 2024).
How much do houses cost near Beckmead College?
Homes in its postcode sector, SE25 5, sold for a median £360,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (313 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.