Coombe Wood School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 54 53.9 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL C C 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 53.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 55.4% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 24.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.38 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	52.6[6]	55.4%[6]
2023/24	50.6[4]	56.9%[4]	+0.38[4]
2022/23	50.1[7]	53%[7]	+0.40[7]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 7.6% 2024/25[3]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	C-[8]	2.9%[8]
2022/23	C-[9]	7.7%[9]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 94% 2022/23[10]
School sixth form: 53% 2022/23[10]
Sixth-form college: 3% 2022/23[10]
Further education college: 34% 2022/23[10]
Apprenticeship: 3% 2022/23[10]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[10]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 85% 2022/23[11]
UK higher education: 61% 2022/23[11]
Education: 66% 2022/23[11]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[11]
Employment: 18% 2022/23[11]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 17 Jan 2023[12]
Type: S5 Inspection[12]
Report published: 1 Mar 2023[12]
Personal development: Good[12]
Quality of education: Good[12]
Overall effectiveness: Good[12]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[12]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[12]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Good[12]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[12]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 7.1 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Applications (any preference): 1239 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences: 321 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Places offered: 174 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences per place: 1.8 Entry Sept 2026[13]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	1479[13]	430[13]	175[13]	8.5[13]	2.5[13]
Entry Sept 2024	1481[13]	394[13]	168[13]	8.8[13]	2.3[13]
Entry Sept 2023	1640[13]	562[13]	172[13]	9.5[13]	3.3[13]
Entry Sept 2022	1721[13]	673[13]	170[13]	10.1[13]	4.0[13]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1100[1]
Trust: GREENSHAW LEARNING TRUST[1]
Local authority: Croydon[1]
Website: www.cws-croydon.co.uk [1]
District: Croydon [14]
Postcode: CR2 7HY[1]
URN: 145875[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1136 2024/25[15]
English as an additional language: 23.2% 2024/25[15]
SEN support: 8.3% 2024/25[15]
EHC plan: 3.4% 2024/25[15]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 31.6% 2024/25[15]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 34.2%[16]
Mixed: 23.1%[16]
Asian: 17.6%[16]
Black: 20.1%[16]
Any other ethnic group: 4%[16]
Unclassified: 1%[16]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: 16-18 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.