Sunnydown SchoolOlympus

Inspection, results, pupils and attendance side by side.

Summary of the comparison

This page compares Sunnydown School and Olympus.

Neither school has a composite score. Our score needs published attainment data, which is not available for every school or every nation.
Sunnydown School was judged Outstanding and Olympus was judged Requires improvement.
On GCSE Attainment 8, the latest published figures are 28.1 for Sunnydown School and 9.6 for Olympus.
GCSE Attainment 8 has risen at Sunnydown School (24.6 in 2021-22, 28.1 in 2025-26).

Sunnydown School versus Olympus compared on inspection, results, pupils and attendance.
Measure	CaterhamSunnydown School	South CroydonOlympus	England average
Overview
Our score	Not scored	Not scored
Local ranking	Not ranked	Not ranked
Inspection	Ofsted: OutstandingStronger figure	Ofsted: Requires improvement
School type	Community special school	Other independent special school
Age range	11-16	11-19
Gender	Boys	Mixed
Pupils on roll	91	48
Capacity	81	55
Location	Caterham, CR3 5ED	South Croydon, CR2 9LQ
GCSE results
Attainment 8	28.1 Stronger figure	9.6	46.2
Grade 5+ in English & maths	18.8% Stronger figure	0.0%	46.3%
Grade 4+ in English & maths	25.0% Stronger figure	0.0%	64.8%
Cohort	16	7
Pupils
Pupils in the census	91	45
Free school meals (ever 6)	37.4%	0.0%
English as an additional language	1.1%	Not reported
SEN support	0.0%	0.0%
SEN with an EHC plan	100.0%	100.0%
Attendance
Overall absence	7.4%	Not reported	6.2%
Persistent absence	20.9%	Not reported	15.8%

marks the stronger figure on measures with a clear direction. Rows describing a school's intake, such as free school meals, English as an additional language and SEN, carry no marker: they describe who a school serves, not how well it serves them.

Historical trends

Each solid line is one school; the dashed line is the national average.

GCSE Attainment 8

Pupils on roll

Ethnicity over time

One panel per school: the largest groups across this comparison, one colour per group, on a shared scale.