Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 833 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.3
Academy sponsor led
Oasis Academy Coulsdon
- Pupils on roll
- 927of 934 places
- Free school meals
- 27.1%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 184
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 20 March 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Coulsdon High School (URN 101822).
What the data says
Oasis Academy Coulsdon has no sixth form. Of the 185 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 33% moved to a sixth form college, 47% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Media Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 24% of the year group took it, against 4% of pupils across England.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 33% of leavers went to one, roughly twice the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.8 against 46.1 across England and 44.5 in Croydon, with 52% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Croydon and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Oasis Academy Coulsdon | Croydon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 185 | 3,906 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 88% | 91% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 48% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 33% | 8% | 13% |
| — further education college | 47% | 34% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 6% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Oasis Academy Coulsdon | Croydon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 44.8 | 44.5 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 52% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 70% | 62% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 63% | 52% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.11 | 3.99 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 32% | 41% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 32.4 | 37.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 50.7 | 49.5 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 3% | 27% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 183 | 99% | 89% | 17% | 20% | 74% |
| Mathematics | 183 | 99% | 88% | 17% | 22% | 74% |
| English Literature | 177 | 96% | 86% | 25% | 21% | 76% |
| Combined Science | 145 | 79% | 65% | 2% | 9% | 60% |
| Religious Studies | 136 | 74% | 31% | 5% | 32% | 43% |
| Geography | 124 | 67% | 41% | 16% | 25% | 68% |
| Spanish | 72 | 39% | 19% | 15% | 27% | 54% |
| Physical Education | 60 | 33% | 11% | 5% | 24% | 57% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 53 | 29% | 8% | 8% | 21% | 89% |
| French | 50 | 27% | 18% | 8% | 29% | 42% |
| Media Studies | 44 | 24% | 4% | 14% | 20% | 64% |
| Design and Technology | 43 | 23% | 11% | 5% | 23% | 77% |
| Textiles | 39 | 21% | 2% | 10% | 27% | 85% |
| Chemistry | 31 | 17% | 23% | 48% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 31 | 17% | 23% | 35% | 46% | 100% |
| Biology | 31 | 17% | 23% | 55% | 45% | 100% |
| Music | 30 | 16% | 5% | 3% | 33% | 53% |
| History | 28 | 15% | 41% | 29% | 26% | 50% |
| Computer Science | 21 | 11% | 13% | 5% | 30% | 43% |
| Fine Art | 20 | 11% | 9% | 40% | 28% | 65% |
| Drama | 17 | 9% | 7% | 12% | 27% | 47% |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
Other secondary schools in Croydon
Coloma Convent Girls' School
Academy converter · sixth form · 967 pupils
98% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.4
Coombe Wood School
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91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.6
Harris Academy Purley
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,013 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.8
Harris Academy South Norwood
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,008 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.2
Harris City Academy Crystal Palace
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,191 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.3
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.