BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology[1]

Independent · ages 14–19

Headline results

A-level average grade: AL C+ C+ 2024/25[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 48.5 2025/26[3]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 49.5% 2025/26[3]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 9.6% 2025/26[3]
Progress 8: -0.36 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

IGCSEs don't count towards Attainment 8, so it understates many independent schools.

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	50.1[6]	54.3%[6]
2023/24	48[4]	52.6%[4]	-0.36[4]
2022/23	54.8[7]	57%[7]	+0.06[7]
2021/22	55.6[8]	59%[8]	-0.07[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C+ 2024/25[2]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 1.7% 2024/25[2]
All results, 2020/21: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
All results, 2019/20: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	C+[10]	0%[10]
2022/23	C+[11]	0%[11]
2021/22	C+[12]	0%[12]
2018/19	C[13]	0%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 97% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 84% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 3% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 8% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[14]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[14]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	97%[15]	87%[15]	3%[15]	4%[15]	0%[15]	1%[15]
2020/21	98%[16]	89%[16]	0%[16]	8%[16]	1%[16]	1%[16]
2019/20	97%[17]	83%[17]	2%[17]	9%[17]	0%[17]	1%[17]
2018/19	97%[18]	86%[18]	4%[18]	5%[18]	0%[18]	1%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 79% 2022/23[19]
Education: 53% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 24% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	85%[20]	61%[20]	1%[20]	23%[20]
2020/21	83%[21]	58%[21]	1%[21]	24%[21]
2019/20	72%[22]	54%[22]		17%[22]
2018/19	82%[23]	50%[23]	2%[23]	31%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 67% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 22% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 3% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 2018/19[26]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2020/21	59%[27]	19%[27]
2019/20	58%[25]	9%[25]	3%[25]
2018/19	53%[26]	8%[26]	4%[26]	0%[26]
2017/18	45%[28]	6%[28]	3%[28]	0%[28]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 19 Nov 2024[29]
Type: S5 Inspection[29]
Report published: 12 Jan 2025[29]
Personal development: Outstanding[29]
Quality of education: Outstanding[29]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[29]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[29]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Outstanding[29]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[29]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
14 Jun 2023[30]	Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[30]	No overall grade[30]
24 Jan 2018[31]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[31]	No overall grade[31]

Competition to get in

No published data for this school.

Character & practicalities

Type: City technology college[1]
Ages: 14–19[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1450[1]
Local authority: Croydon[1]
Website: http://www.brit.croydon.sch.uk/[1]
District: Croydon [32]
Postcode: CR0 2HN[1]
URN: 101849[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1447 2024/25[33]
English as an additional language: 3.9% 2024/25[33]
SEN support: 22.5% 2024/25[33]
EHC plan: 2.6% 2024/25[33]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 16.7% 2024/25[33]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 60.3%[34]
Mixed: 21.5%[34]
Asian: 2.8%[34]
Black: 14.5%[34]
Any other ethnic group: 0.7%[34]
Unclassified: 0.1%[34]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

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