Graded inspection · Oct 2024 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 | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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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 entry995 applications · 300 places offered · 234 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 3.3; Kent median median 3.1
- 2025 3.0; Kent median median 3.0
- 2024 3.0; Kent median median 3.2
- 2023 3.0; Kent median median 3.2
- 2022 2.9; Kent median median 2.9
- 2021 4.2; Kent median median 3.6
- 2020 3.4; Kent median median 3.1
- 2019 3.3; Kent median median 2.9
- 2018 3.2; Kent median median 3.1
- 2017 3.4; Kent median median 3.0
- 2016 3.6; Kent median median 3.3
- 2015 4.2; Kent median median 3.2
- 2014 3.9; Kent median median 3.1
- This school
- Kent median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Selective: register for the entrance test with the school first, usually by the summer before (dates vary). Dates
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 | 300 | 995 | 3.3 | 234 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2025 | 300 | 901 | 3.0 | 238 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2024 | 300 | 895 | 3.0 | 223 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2023 | 299 | 893 | 3.0 | 251 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2022 | 330 | 963 | 2.9 | 259 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2021 | 300 | 1,254 | 4.2 | 449 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2020 | 280 | 960 | 3.4 | 317 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2019 | 295 | 968 | 3.3 | 332 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2018 | 296 | 949 | 3.2 | 314 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2017 | 264 | 895 | 3.4 | 269 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2016 | 230 | 831 | 3.6 | 248 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2015 | 174 | 736 | 4.2 | 209 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2014 | 175 | 687 | 3.9 | 226 | 1.29 |
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.) | 302 | 69.3 | 95% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 290 | 70.0 | 95% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 302 | 70.1 | 91% | 98% | +0.77 |
| 2022/23 | 292 | 70.4 | 95% | 99% | +0.83 |
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
- Weald of Kent Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20243.3applications per place 69.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.4 km · KentStandards maintained20245.4applications per place 77.0Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.5 km · KentRemains Good20233.2applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · KentGraded · no overall grade20255.6applications per place 78.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.5 km · KentGood20223.6applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · KentRequires improvement20231.5applications per place 38.2Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · KentGraded · no overall grade20243.4applications per place 44.8Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · Kent20263.9applications per place 64.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.6 km · KentOutstanding20234.5applications per place 72.5Attainment 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
- 136455 · 886/4046
- Trust
- Weald of Kent Grammar School Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 2,475 pupils · 1,913 on roll
- Free school meals
- 3.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 February 2011
- Replaced
- Weald of Kent Grammar School (URN 118791)
- Address
- Tudeley Lane, Tonbridge, TN9 2JP
- Local authority
- Kent · Tonbridge and Malling
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources