Which school had the best GCSE results in Croydon in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Riddlesdown Collegiate topped the table in Croydon with 56.3, against an England average of 46.3. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Croydon GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Croydon are on the main Croydon GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. Progress 8 measures the same pupils against others nationally with the same primary-school starting point.

Why does a school in Croydon show no 2023 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2023 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Croydon GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

20 state secondary schools in Croydon ranked on their 2023 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2022/23 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 3 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 9 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Croydon GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 23 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Croydon ranked on Attainment 8

20 of 23 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Croydon ranked on Attainment 8, 2023 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.3	0.00	45%	65%	4.05	–
1	Riddlesdown Collegiate Purley · Academy converter	56.3	+0.49 (0.33 to 0.65)	66%	81%	4.97	327
2	Orchard Park High School Croydon · Academy sponsor led	50.6	+0.51 (0.23 to 0.78)	55%	71%	4.29	114
3	Coombe Wood School South Croydon · Free schools	50.1	+0.40 (0.19 to 0.61)	53%	79%	4.56	179
4	Harris City Academy Crystal Palace London · Academy sponsor led	48.3	-0.10 (-0.31 to 0.11)	46%	71%	4.47	177
5=	Norbury High School for Girls Thornton Heath · Academy converter	48.0	+0.14 (-0.05 to 0.33)	43%	65%	4.04	223
5=	Woodcote High School Coulsdon · Academy converter	48.0	+0.22 (0.02 to 0.42)	54%	68%	4.32	203
7	Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School Croydon · Voluntary aided school	47.1	-0.01 (-0.27 to 0.25)	41%	65%	4.23	120
8	Oasis Academy Coulsdon Croydon · Academy sponsor led	46.1	-0.11 (-0.32 to 0.10)	50%	69%	4.21	185
9	St Joseph's College London · Academy converter	46.0	-0.22 (-0.44 to 0.00)	45%	67%	4.00	167
10	Harris Invictus Academy Croydon Croydon · Free schools	45.3	+0.19 (-0.02 to 0.41)	48%	68%	4.12	170
11	Oasis Academy Shirley Park Croydon · Academy sponsor led	44.6	-0.24 (-0.46 to -0.01)	37%	61%	4.24	173
12=	Harris Academy South Norwood London · Academy sponsor led	44.4	+0.03 (-0.13 to 0.19)	35%	55%	3.94	334
12=	Shirley High School Performing Arts College Croydon · Academy converter	44.4	-0.17 (-0.39 to 0.05)	39%	61%	3.86	165
14	Thomas More Catholic School Purley · Voluntary aided school	44.1	+0.00 (-0.31 to 0.31)	42%	58%	4.01	106
15	Harris Academy Purley South Croydon · Academy sponsor led	43.9	-0.04 (-0.25 to 0.16)	44%	68%	4.18	189
16	The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy Croydon · Academy sponsor led	41.9	+0.14 (-0.14 to 0.42)	34%	56%	3.71	122
17	The Quest Academy South Croydon · Academy sponsor led	41.5	-0.56 (-0.80 to -0.32)	43%	59%	3.78	144
18	Meridian High School Croydon · Academy sponsor led	39.0	-0.42 (-0.69 to -0.15)	29%	49%	3.64	109
19	St Mary's Catholic High School Croydon · Voluntary aided school	38.6	+0.00 (-0.34 to 0.34)	30%	45%	3.27	101
20	Oasis Academy Arena London · Academy sponsor led	34.6	-0.54 (-0.83 to -0.25)	28%	45%	3.37	125
–	Ark Blake Academy Croydon · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Coloma Convent Girls' School Croydon · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Harris Academy Beulah Hill London · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Independent schools in Croydon with published 2023 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Al-Khair School Croydon · Other independent school	63.5	78%	18
Al-Khair Secondary Girls Other independent school	59.2	69%	13
BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology Croydon · City technology college	54.8	57%	195
Croydon High School South Croydon · Other independent school	21.8	0%	83
Croydon Metropolitan College Croydon · Other independent school	13.8	13%	8
Fidelis College London · Other independent school	65.8	71%	17
Royal Russell School Croydon · Other independent school	17.3	0%	126
Trinity School Other independent school	16.5	0%	130
Whitgift School Other independent school	11.4	0%	249

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2023 was 46.3.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 measures how much progress pupils made from the end of primary school to their GCSEs against pupils nationally with the same starting point; it is the like-for-like measure, and the range in brackets is its confidence interval.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2023 archive of the table: each school's 2023 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2023 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Croydon GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Croydon on our composite score

Croydon GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Croydon ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Croydon with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Croydon

Croydon GCSE results: common questions