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The Link School

Special schoolAges 4–19AcademySixth form

Sutton, CR0 4PG · Sutton local authority

Sutton’s School Grade A+ better than 97% of towns in England

How full
167 pupils
113% of its 148 places
Free school meals
43%
43 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about The Link School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 167 pupils for 148 places
  • 43% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CR0 4) sold for a median £362,500; Sutton’s is £455,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 10 pupils

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

Attainment 8 1

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Sutton avg 62.3

20304050607080England avg 47.3The Link 1

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Sutton avg 72%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%The Link 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
1.8
2024/25
1.9
2025/26
1

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.64: 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% · Sutton 83% · 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

157 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
14%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
45.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 32%Boys 68%
Its letter

No letter for The Link 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 (no overall grade since September 2024), June 2025. Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, November 2019.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Link School

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

Home prices in CR0 4, the school’s postcode sector

Sutton property prices →
£362,500
median sale, 490 sales in 36 months · Sutton £455,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K2010201520202025CR0 4Sutton
CR0 4Sutton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£575K
Semi-detached
£478K
Terraced
£400K
Flat
£256K
CR0 4Sutton

Homes in CR0 4 sell for well under Sutton’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

31 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−BB+B−B+A−A−A+A+BAADA+B−AA−D−B−AB+B−CBAA+C−The Link School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Sutton, CR0 4PG

The Link School: common questions

What is The Link School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).

How much do houses cost near The Link School?

Homes in its postcode sector, CR0 4, sold for a median £362,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (490 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; Sutton’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.