Harris City Academy Crystal Palace

📍 Maberley Road, Upper Norwood, Croydon, SE19 2JH

About this school

Harris City Academy Crystal Palace is an Academy sponsor led serving secondary age pupils, located in Croydon. The school has 1,162 pupils enrolled. It was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 1 April 2025. The Principal is Samuel Rigby. The school is administered by Croydon local authority. It belongs to HARRIS FEDERATION. It opened in 1 September 2007.

School details

Principal

Samuel Rigby

Trust

HARRIS FEDERATION

Local authority

Croydon

Gender

Mixed

URN

135311

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Harris City Academy Crystal Palace are handled by the school or the local authority (Croydon). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

Source: Department for Education school performance data. Check this school on GOV.UK →

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