Harris Invictus Academy Croydon

Free schools·Secondary school Croydon·CR0 2TB
Composite score
56.2
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#1,704
National rank
#353
In London
#12
In Croydon
Top 54%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
45.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
46%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
62%
% EBacc grade 5+
23%
EBacc average points score
4.26

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
89%
171 first choices, 178 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
505
any preference, for 178 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.37
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6520220.8320230.9020240.5920250.962026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Harris Invictus Academy Croydon yet. Croydon does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
980
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
51.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
46.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
23.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,397
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
94%
170 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
94%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Harris Invictus Academy Croydon at a glance

Located in Croydon, Harris Invictus Academy Croydon is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a free school. The school educates roughly 980 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 45.0, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 2.6 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of secondary schools nationally.

46% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 62% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 89% of the families who made Harris Invictus Academy Croydon their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 94% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 15.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Harris Invictus Academy Croydon does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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