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£40m Trinity School expansion given planning green light

Posted on May 2, 2026 by insidecroydon

The council’s planning committee has given a green light to a £40million development to expand Trinity School in Shirley Park to ready the independent boys’ school to go fully co-educational by 2031. The scheme is the first major re-build since … Continue reading →

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Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion

Posted on February 11, 2026 by insidecroydon

Less than a year after announcing the £30,000 a year fee-paying school would start offering places to girls, plans have gone in for works that will see its expansion to 1,400 pupils. By STEVEN DOWNES Plans for a £40million extension … Continue reading →

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Secondaries celebrate as ‘covid bubble’ pupils pass GCSEs

Posted on August 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

For the 15- and 16-year-olds who began their secondary school careers with a year or more spent in a covid “bubble”, yesterday’s GCSE results will have come as a form of vindication, and relief. Covid and its aftermath had sent … Continue reading →

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Trinity boys’ school confirms that it will go co-ed from 2027

Posted on April 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Almost two years since the Whitgift Foundation shocked the Croydon community by deciding to close its fee-paying girls’ school, Old Palace, the charity has decided to re-balance its education provision by converting one of its other large independent schools … Continue reading →

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Trinity is named in country’s top eight independent schools

Posted on November 20, 2018 by insidecroydon

Trinity School in Shirley Park has been shortlisted for the Independent School of the Year award by the Times Educational Supplement. The £17,500-a-year private school, part of the Whitgift Foundation, is one of eight named on the shortlist for the … Continue reading →

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