Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in KentSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Inspection history
- 11 March 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 2 July 2021Ungraded inspection: School remains Good
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry186 applications · 139 places offered · 95 named it first
- 2026 1.3; Kent median median 3.1
- 2025 1.6; Kent median median 3.0
- 2024 1.5; Kent median median 3.2
- 2023 1.3; Kent median median 3.2
- 2022 1.4; Kent median median 2.9
- 2021 1.8; Kent median median 3.6
- 2020 1.2; Kent median median 3.1
- 2019 1.2; Kent median median 2.9
- 2018 1.4; Kent median median 3.1
- 2017 1.7; Kent median median 3.0
- 2016 1.6; Kent median median 3.3
- 2015 1.5; Kent median median 3.2
- 2014 1.5; Kent median median 3.1
- This school
- Kent median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 139 | 186 | 1.3 | 95 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2025 | 109 | 169 | 1.6 | 100 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2024 | 112 | 168 | 1.5 | 86 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2023 | 145 | 181 | 1.3 | 95 | 0.66 |
| Sep 2022 | 113 | 156 | 1.4 | 84 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2021 | 128 | 224 | 1.8 | 130 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2020 | 129 | 159 | 1.2 | 98 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2019 | 148 | 178 | 1.2 | 112 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2018 | 137 | 188 | 1.4 | 105 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2017 | 93 | 153 | 1.7 | 74 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2016 | 111 | 178 | 1.6 | 84 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2015 | 120 | 176 | 1.5 | 94 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2014 | 96 | 143 | 1.5 | 75 | 0.78 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 106 | 38.3 | 27% | 46% | – |
| 2024/25 | 88 | 41.3 | 33% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 106 | 40.9 | 28% | 59% | +0.03 |
| 2022/23 | 112 | 41.4 | 32% | 61% | −0.08 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Orchards AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 38.3Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · KentOutstanding20235.2applications per place 45.1Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · KentRemains Good20235.9applications per place 67.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.2 km · KentGood20225.2applications per place 65.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.5 km · BromleyGood20231.8applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 4.5 km · BromleyGraded · no overall grade20251.0applications per place 30.6Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · BexleyGood20243.9applications per place 39.6Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · Kent20263.9applications per place 47.1Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · BromleyGraded · no overall grade20243.7applications per place 85.0Attainment 8 Selective
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136304 · 886/4031
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 828 pupils · 554 on roll
- Free school meals
- 42.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 November 2010
- Replaced
- Swanley Technology College (URN 118786)
- Address
- St Mary's Road, Swanley, BR8 7TE
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources