Ark Oval Primary Academy
0.5 miles593 pupils · KS2 expected standard 66% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Croydon
Park Hill Junior School
Academy converter · Ages 7 to 11 · Mixed · 367 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Academy converter (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 367 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 372
- Headteacher
- Ms Ayla Arli
- Trust
- GREENSHAW LEARNING TRUST
- Address
- Stanhope Road, Croydon, CR0 5NS
- Borough
- Croydon
- Telephone
- 02086868623
- DfE reference (URN)
- 144382
- Website
- parkhilljunior.co.uk
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
Admissions
You apply through the council where you live, not to the school, naming up to six schools in order on one form. Every applicant on time hears on the same national offer day.
Croydon: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 89.6% of applicants were offered their first preference and 99.2% were offered one of their preferences (4,082 applications). These are borough-wide figures, not a forecast for any school or child.
Source: Department for Education, Secondary and primary schools applications and offers 2026 · entry years 2014/15 to 2026/27 (release published 2026-06-18) · last checked 9 October 2026
Inspection
Ofsted graded inspection, 4 May 2023: overall effectiveness at that inspection was Outstanding
Ofsted stopped giving state schools a single overall grade in September 2024. This grade dates from the inspection shown; it is not a current rating.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
Ofsted ungraded inspection, 15 January 2020: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
An ungraded inspection confirms or questions the previous grade; it does not set a new one.
Source: Ofsted, Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 31 August 2026 · latest inspections as at 2026-08-31 · last checked 9 October 2026
Results
Key stage 2 (end of primary), 2024/25
- % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 86% · 2023/24: 70%82%This school68%Croydon62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 24% · 2023/24: 24%34%This school10%Croydon8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading2022/23: 110 · 2023/24: 107109This school106Croydon106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths2022/23: 109 · 2023/24: 108109This school106Croydon105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 93 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 21.8% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 44.2%
- Receiving SEN support
- 18.3%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 3%
- Girls / boys
- 49% / 51%
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · school census 2024/25
Attendance and staffing
- Overall absence
- 4.3% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 9.2%
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 360
- Pupils on roll
- 372
Source: Department for Education, Capacity - school / Sixth form capacity - school · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · position at 1 May, 2024/25
Nearby schools
Schools covering the same ages within about a mile, by straight-line distance (not walking or travel time).
Heathfield Academy
0.5 miles411 pupils · KS2 expected standard 90% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Elmhurst School
0.6 miles126 pupils · £5,080 to £5,620 a term (2026-27)
St Mary's Catholic Infant School
0.7 miles193 pupils
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Howard Primary School
0.7 miles387 pupils · KS2 expected standard 71% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Krishna Avanti Primary School
0.7 miles212 pupils · KS2 expected standard 84% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Compare with similar schools
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