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Boys secondary school in London, Croydon

St Joseph's College

Beulah Hill, London, SE19 3HL

Sixth form Roman Catholic Boys
School website 02087611426

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 26 March 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

45.5 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

35% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

63% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

43% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.04confidence interval -0.18 to 0.26

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C-
Average points per entry
25.4

England average 32.3

A level students
50

Pupils

Pupils on roll
739
Places
1050
How full
70% full — 739 of 1050 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
8 / 731
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
17%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
43%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
25%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
10%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
69%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
167

After sixth form

Went to university
64%

England 50%

In education, work or training
79%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
87

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

7% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
71%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
83

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Croydon 002A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
50%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
75%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
4%

England 17%

Households with no car
20%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
39%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE DELASALLE
Headteacher
Head Master: George Mantillas / Catherine Kane
Local authority
Croydon
Ward
Norbury Park
Constituency
Streatham and Croydon North
URN
138221

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Norwood SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 50.2 0.4 mi
The New SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 57.7 0.6 mi
Fidelis CollegeOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
Harris Academy Beulah HillAcademy converter No grade 44.4 0.7 mi
Norbury High School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2022 46.4 0.7 mi
Dunraven SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 49.7 1 mi
The Elmgreen SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 40.1 1.3 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Friern Barnet SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 44.8
Belmont Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 53.4
Weatherhead High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 41.9
Armthorpe AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 39.5
St John Plessington Catholic CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 37.2
Tudor Grange Academy RedditchAcademy converter No grade 29.8
Swanwick Hall SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 42.6
Trinity Church of England School, LewishamVoluntary aided school No grade 48.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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