Chaffinch Brook School
0.6 miles98 pupils
Independent · Special school · Croydon
Supreme Education AP
Independent special school · Ages 11 to 19 · Mixed · 18 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Independent special school
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 18 census January 2024
- Capacity
- 50
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Head
- Mr Geoffrey Opoku
- Address
- CSEP, 32-34 Sydenham Road, Croydon, CR0 2EF
- Borough
- Croydon
- Telephone
- 03303202161
- DfE reference (URN)
- 150939
- Website
- supremeeducationap.org
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
Admissions
Places at special schools are normally arranged through a child's Education, Health and Care Plan, with the local authority naming the school. Speak to your borough's special educational needs team rather than applying on the general admissions form.
Inspection
Ofsted report card, inspected 24 March 2026
Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade. The report card grades each area on a five-point scale.
- Inclusion
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Urgent improvement
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards: Not met.
Independent School Standards, checked 24 March 2026: Did not meet all standards
Source: Ofsted, Management information - non-association independent schools - as at 31 July 2026: most recent inspections data as at 31 July 2026 · most recent inspections as at 2026-07-31 · last checked 9 October 2026
Pupils and context
- Receiving SEN support
- 52.6%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 26.3%
- Girls / boys
- 42% / 58%
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · school census 2024/25
Nearby schools
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