St Aidan's Catholic Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Coulsdon, Croydon·CR5 3DE
Composite score
85.1
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#456
National rank
#165
In London
#4
In Croydon
Top 3%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
77%
% achieving higher RWM
30%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
72%
40 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.33
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
131
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
17%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.57
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1 per place
1.2820221.2320230.9020240.7720251.332026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Aidan's Catholic Primary 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).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
216
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
6.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
10.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
3.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
4.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
37.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,037
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

St Aidan's Catholic Primary School is a primary school serving Coulsdon, Croydon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Catholic religious character. It has 216 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 77% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 7.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 3% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 30% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Aidan's Catholic Primary School is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 40 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 3.6%. There are about 37.9 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 7% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Aidan's Catholic Primary School 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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