School profile
The Link School
138 Croydon Road, Beddington, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 4PG
Overview
The Link School is a special / send school (academy special converter) in Croydon, London, for pupils aged 4–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 4–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 148
- Pupils on roll
- 167
- URN
- 144851
Admissions
- Local authority
- Sutton
- Academy trust or group
- ORCHARD HILL COLLEGE ACADEMY TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 24 June 2025 · Published 22 July 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Good
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 28 November 2019 · Published 16 December 2019
Outcome: School remains Outstanding
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Location
- Address
- 138 Croydon Road, Beddington, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 4PG
- Local authority
- Sutton
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