Secondary
Orchard Park High School
Orchard Way, Shirley, Croydon, CR0 7NJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 675 of 1000 places
- Local authority
- Croydon
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- Trust
- GREENSHAW LEARNING TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected January 2024
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
45%
44.8
8th of 23 by our score, among the secondary schools in Croydon we can score - 30 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 44.8 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.84 |
| Entered the EBacc | 23% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 63% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 45% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 56% |
| 22/23 | 55% |
| 23/24 | 53% |
| 24/25 | 45% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.52 |
| 22/23 | +0.51 |
| 23/24 | +0.37 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 49.8 |
| 22/23 | 50.6 |
| 23/24 | 49.7 |
| 24/25 | 44.8 |
Orchard Way, Shirley, Croydon, CR0 7NJ
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Croydon admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Carly Moran
- Address
- Orchard Way, Shirley, Croydon, CR0 7NJ
- Telephone
- 02087760220