Schools
- Elm Wood Primary School
- Kingswood School, Gipsy Hill
(Note that as of the start of the school year in 2012, Kingswood School was split across two sites, with infants and nursery at Kingswood Lower Site (formerly Norwood Park Primary School) and juniors at Kingswood Upper Site). The expansion of Kingswood was driven by the school's success and huge popularity within the local area. It consistently performs in the high nineties in its Year Six SATs, and is outstanding in Ofsted reports. It is also a national school of excellence, and as such mentors failing schools that need to improve. So far it has taken on both Paxton and Elm Wood schools when they were put in special measures, and under the umbrella of the Gipsy Hill Federation, both schools have turned around and now also have Outstanding ratings by Ofsted.
- Norwood Park School (Note that Norwood Park Primary School closed in July 2002. The site is due for development by the London Borough of Lambeth as a Pupil Referral Unit - see decision The school website was still 'live' as of 25 April 2012)
The school did become a pupil referral unit, Park Campus. The council developed part of the site for this unit, which has a roll of around 80 pupils under the age of 16. The remaining school buildings are now Kingswood Lower Site, with 14 classes from nursery to year 2. Pupils at Kinswood Primary go to the Kingswood Upper Site (just further up Gipsy Road) for Year's 3 to 6.
- Paxton School
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