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Confidentiality and preferences, waiting lists, late applications, special educational needs (SEN), neighbouring authorities, distance between your home and schools.
To assess school applications, the local authority measures the distance from the home to the school using a GIS (geographic information system). This measures the precise distance, to three decimal points, in a straight line from the pupil’s main home to the designated main school entrance nominated by the school. For shared properties, e.g. flats, the measurement is taken from a reference point within the building. The use of the geographic information system (GIS) ensures that all applications are measured by the same method.
To calculate the approximate distance between your home and a local school, please go to our interactive borough map to look for
primary schools or secondary schools.
On either map:
Our map:
Previous admission years
The primary school prospectus includes a table setting out the number of on-time applications for each Croydon primary and infant school, detailing the furthest distances to an applicant’s home that each school was able to offer a place in the past three years. These distances are provided as a guide only; for some schools the table shows that there can be a wide variation in the distances between years.
Changing circumstances can affect the furthest distance to which a school can offer places, these include:
There is no guarantee that in the future, a school will be able to offer places to the same distance as it did in previous years. These distances also give no indication of whether the school might be able to offer places to a further distance in future years.
The local authority cannot be held responsible if:
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