Serenity School, Old Palace Croydon
Serenity School, Old Palace Croydon is an independent special school in Croydon for boys and girls aged 4 to 19. It has 144 pupils and room for 450.
Old Palace School, Old Palace Road, Croydon, CR0 1AX020 3504 2280Mr Shiraz Khan headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2025: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Croydon council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Khair School Preparatory School | Independent (grammar) | 500 m | 241 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| The Minster Junior School | Academy | 520 m | 283 | No overall grade 2025 | 68 | Compare |
| The Minster Nursery and Infants Church of England Academy | Academy | 520 m | 211 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| The Write Time | Independent | 540 m | 59 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Krishna Avanti Primary School | Free school | 560 m | 212 | Not inspected | 94 | Compare |
| Croydon College | Further education | 590 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Harris Federation Post 16 | Sixth form centres | 590 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Saffron Valley Collegiate | Academy alternative provision converter | 630 m | 64 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Serenity School, Old Palace Croydon a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Serenity School, Old Palace Croydon yet.
How many pupils does Serenity School, Old Palace Croydon have?
144 pupils aged 4 to 19 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 450 places, so it is 32% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Old Palace School, Old Palace Road, Croydon, CR0 1AX
- Telephone
- 020 3504 2280
- Headteacher
- Mr Shiraz Khan
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 4-19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Ward
- Fairfield
- Constituency
- Croydon West
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 18 September 2025 (new provision)
- URN
- 151898 · LAESTAB 3066040 · UKPRN 10100580
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.