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Primary school in Croydon

Elmwood Junior School

Lodge Road, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 2PL

Ofsted Good · 2023
School website 02086844007
Ofsted Good March 2023
Met the expected standard 52% in the lower half nationally
Pupils 464 97% full

Ofsted

Goodas at 22 March 2023

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 22 March 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Good
Last overall grade in this dataset
Good
Days since inspection
1,290 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

52% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

5% England 8.1%

Average reading score

103 England 105.3

Average maths score

103 England 104.1

On the headline measure this school is in the lower half of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
464
Places
480
How full
Nearly full — 464 of 480 places taken
Girls / boys
207 / 257
Overall absence
5%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
13%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
40%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
67%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
4

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
230

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
22
Busiest road nearby
A235

14,124 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
12

England average 11.9

Nearest station
West Croydon Tram Stop

0.8 km away — metro or tram stop

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£300,000

postcode sector CR0 2 · 378 sales

Typical range
£234,875 to £383,687

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£450,000
Terraced
£373,000
Flat
£258,000

Homes around this school are close to the England average.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
8%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
27%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
50%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
30%

England 62.7%

Social housing
22%

England 17%

Privately rented
45%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
13%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
10%

England 22.5%

No car
49%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Croydon 015F and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 7–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Chris Marston
Register status
Open
Local authority
Croydon
Ward
Broad Green
Constituency
Croydon West
URN
101720

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

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Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
Elmwood Infant SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 — 0 mi
Chestnut Park Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led No overall grade 40% 0.2 mi
Ecclesbourne Primary SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 72% 0.4 mi
Harris Primary Academy CroydonAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2023 65% 0.6 mi
St. Mary's Catholic Junior SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 72% 0.6 mi
Al-Khair School Preparatory SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — 0.6 mi
Broadmead Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 64% 0.6 mi
The Crescent Primary SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 50% 0.6 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 52%
Median of its 11 closest peers 57%
Croydon average 61.9%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
Jubilee Wood Primary SchoolAcademy converter Milton Keynes Good 2022 59%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school West Bromwich Good 2023 50%
Lane End Primary SchoolFoundation school Leeds Good 2022 35%
Gaskell Community Primary SchoolCommunity school Bolton No overall grade 65%
St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Smethwick Report card 2026 63%
Deeplish Primary AcademyAcademy sponsor led Rochdale No overall grade 59%
Boston Pioneers Free School AcademyFree schools Boston No overall grade 45%
Lidget Green Primary SchoolAcademy converter Bradford Report card 2026 80%
Widden Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Gloucester Requires improvement 2022 —
Morden Mount Primary SchoolCommunity school London Good 2023 57%
Coston Primary SchoolCommunity school Greenford No overall grade 54%
Abbotsbury Primary SchoolCommunity school Morden Good 2023 47%

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 101720; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 22 March 2023
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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