Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School, Croydon
Borough: Croydon
Address: Selborne Road
Town: Surrey
Postcode: CR0 5JQ
Phone: 020 8688 4014
Fax: 020 8681 6336
Email: office@archten.croydon.sch.uk
Website: Archbishop Tenison's CofE High
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Nearest tube or station: Train station: East Croydon
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for around 760 pupils, of whom 270 are in the Sixth Form. It occupies a site established just over 35 years ago
in a pleasant residential area of the Borough. Since 1959, the accommodation has been augmented by the building
of a Sixth Form Centre, and Art, a Geography, and Technology Centres. We have just come to the end of a planned
expansion from two forms of entry to three. This, of course, required additional accommodation, which includes a
new library-resource area, a music suite, technology and science rooms and several general-purpose classrooms.
The school is highly regarded locally and each year is heavily over-subscribed. Hence the need for the
expansion referred to above. The popularity of the school stems from its high academic standards (around 7+ A*-
C grades per candidate at GCSE), the presence of a large Sixth Form, the very high level of pastoral care
provided for the pupils, and the Christian ethos of the school.
Assemblies are taken seriously; there is
a termly School Eucharist, all students take Religious Studies at GCSE and there is usually a good A-level
entry. Because the school is oversubscribed, it is necessary for the Governors to select those to whom places
are offered and this selection at Year 7 is based entirely on the church membership of the applicants and their
families. The annual admissions procedure is shared with our sister school, St. Andrew's, an 11-16 mixed C.E.
voluntary aided school situated near the centre of Croydon.
Admission is not restricted to Anglicans and
the school welcomes many pupils from other churches and now reflects the social and ethnic population of
Croydon. Pupils at St. Andrew's have a right to places in the Sixth Form at Archbishop Tenison's, and a large
number of them take advantage of this opportunity each year.
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