Coloma Convent Girls' School

Type Secondary / Academy converter
Age Range 11-18
Religion Roman Catholic
Address Upper Shirley Road
Croydon
Surrey
CR9 5AS
Phone 02086546228
Reference Number 149347

General Makeup

Number of pupils 1026
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 18.1%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 13.5%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 20.2

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 Unknown 147 147
8 Unknown 174 174
9 Unknown 148 148
10 Unknown 146 146
11 Unknown 154 154
12 Unknown 98 98
13 Unknown 159 159

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
African 28.2%
White, British 18.5%
Indian 8.6%
White, Other 8%
Asian, Other 7.3%
Caribbean 5.3%
Mixed, Other 4.3%
Unclassified 3.4%
White & Asian 3.3%
White & Black (African) 2.2%
Pakistani 2.2%
Irish 1.6%
White & Black (Caribbean) 1.4%
Chinese 0.4%

Overall Ofsted Rating As of September 2024, Ofsted no longer give a one word rating for schools. See our blog post for more details.
Last Inspection Date 2022-11-04
Date Description Report
2022-11-04 Academy conversion letter Academy conversion letter

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
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GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 67.1% Unlock Unlock
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 80.9% Unlock Unlock

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
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2024 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
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Second Preference 100 17
Third Preference 93 16
From another Local Authority 59 16

Previous Years

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Destinations after GCSE's

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