In 1953 work began on a new school nearby in Mitcham Road, being opened in 1956 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher.

On 9 August 1961, 34 boys and 2 members of staff from the school were killed when their plane crashed near Stavanger Airport, Sola, Norway.

[1] The fiftieth anniversary was marked by a book published in summer 2011, The Lanfranc Boys by Rosalind Jones, sister of Quentin Green, one of the victims.

The Ofsted report of June 2009 states that the school "is a specialist sports college serving a part of Croydon of considerable ethnic and cultural diversity.

The report stated that the quality of education provided by the school was at least satisfactory in all respects with some key aspects as good and others outstanding.