The New School[1]
Independent · ages 4–18
Headline results
No headline results are published for this school in the latest two years.
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 18.7 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
IGCSEs don't count towards Attainment 8, so it understates many independent schools.
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)[4]
ISI inspection
- Inspection
- October 2024[5]
- Framework
- Framework from September 2023[5]
- Leadership and governance
- Standards met[5]
- Quality of education
- Standards met[5]
- Health and wellbeing
- Standards met[5]
- Social and economic education
- Standards met[5]
- Safeguarding
- Standards met[5]
Leadership and governance
- ISI recommended: The school should write down all risk assessments clearly and keep them up to date.
Quality of education
- ISI recommended: The school should ensure the curriculum has enough academic challenge for all pupils, especially those with higher attainment.
Health and wellbeing
- ISI recommended: The school should use the same way to handle pupils’ behaviour to reduce small disruptions in lessons.
Findings of the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), restated in our own words: not ISI's wording. Read the full report on ISI's website.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
Fees
No fees published on the school's website that we could verify.
- Type
- Other independent school[1]
- Ages
- 4–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 120[1]
- Local authority
- Croydon[1]
- Website
- www.thenewschool.org.uk[1]
- Nursery classes
- No Nursery Classes[4]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[4]
- District
- Croydon[6]
- Postcode
- SE19 1RT[1]
- URN
- 147986[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 102 2024/25[7]
- SEN support
- 24.5% 2024/25[7]
- EHC plan
- 6.9% 2024/25[7]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[7]
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.
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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: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: School inspection report, The New School, October 2024. Period 2026-10-17. Licence: all-rights-reserved (restated only, D71).
- 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.