Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 833 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.3
Community special school
Bensham Manor School
- Pupils on roll
- 246of 245 places
- Free school meals
- 58.1%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 42
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 5 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 55 pupils who finished Year 11 at Bensham Manor School in 2023, 2% stayed on in Bensham Manor School’s own sixth form (Croydon average 48%), 96% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Fine Art is unusually popular at GCSE: 69% of the year group took it, against 9% of pupils across England.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 2% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
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 | Bensham Manor School | Croydon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 55 | 3,906 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 98% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 98% | 91% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 2% | 48% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 8% | 13% |
| — further education college | 96% | 34% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Bensham Manor School | Croydon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 3.5 | 44.5 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 62% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 52% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.07 | 3.99 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 64% | 41% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 3.7 | 37.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 3.1 | 49.5 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 19% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Art | 29 | 69% | 9% | 0% | 28% | 45% |
| Textiles | 18 | 43% | 2% | 0% | 27% | 28% |
| Mathematics | 7 | 17% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 29% |
| English Language | 6 | 14% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
| Biology | 3 | 7% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
Where Bensham Manor School is
Other secondary schools in Croydon are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Croydon’s allocation statistics.
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
Free schools · sixth form · 1,162 pupils
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.