St Mary's Catholic Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Croydon·CR0 2AQ

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

St Mary's Catholic Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

95%

58 first choices, 60 places

First choices per place

0.97

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

176

any preference, for 60 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.19

00.511.52

1 per place

1.1720221.6220231.0220241.1520250.972026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Mary's Catholic Infant School 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).

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness

Good

Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 209
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

16.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

89.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

12.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

3.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

5.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,121

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St. Mary's Catholic Junior School Croydon · 0.1 mi 60.6 Ark Oval Primary Academy Croydon · 0.4 mi 47.6 Chestnut Park Primary School Croydon · 0.5 mi 41.4 Elmwood Junior School Croydon · 0.6 mi 51.1 Broadmead Primary School Croydon · 0.7 mi 55.0 Harris Primary Academy Croydon Croydon · 0.8 mi 58.4 The Crescent Primary School Croydon · 0.8 mi 36.9 Krishna Avanti Primary School Croydon · 0.8 mi 73.3

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

St Mary's Catholic Infant School is a primary school serving Croydon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 209 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated St Mary's Catholic Infant School 'Good'.

95% of the families who made St Mary's Catholic Infant School their first choice were offered a Reception 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. Overall pupil absence was 3.3%. There are about 18.7 pupils per teacher. When comparing schools, it is still worth visiting in person to see whether the atmosphere and approach suit your child. 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.