Graded inspection · Apr 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry720 applications · 255 places offered · 290 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 2.8; Kent median median 3.1
- 2025 2.7; Kent median median 3.0
- 2024 3.0; Kent median median 3.2
- 2023 2.9; Kent median median 3.2
- 2022 3.1; Kent median median 2.9
- 2021 4.1; Kent median median 3.6
- 2020 2.9; Kent median median 3.1
- 2019 2.9; Kent median median 2.9
- 2018 2.9; Kent median median 3.1
- 2017 2.9; Kent median median 3.0
- 2016 3.0; Kent median median 3.3
- 2015 3.5; Kent median median 3.2
- 2014 3.1; 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 | 255 | 720 | 2.8 | 290 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2025 | 244 | 662 | 2.7 | 271 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2024 | 251 | 762 | 3.0 | 303 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2023 | 256 | 734 | 2.9 | 278 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2022 | 240 | 734 | 3.1 | 297 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2021 | 240 | 971 | 4.1 | 374 | 1.56 |
| Sep 2020 | 235 | 686 | 2.9 | 261 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2019 | 237 | 678 | 2.9 | 255 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2018 | 216 | 616 | 2.9 | 238 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2017 | 192 | 548 | 2.9 | 220 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2016 | 210 | 636 | 3.0 | 238 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2015 | 192 | 663 | 3.5 | 252 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2014 | 183 | 566 | 3.1 | 219 | 1.20 |
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.) | 242 | 70.8 | 93% | 98% | – |
| 2024/25 | 250 | 70.8 | 93% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 249 | 71.1 | 93% | 99% | +0.79 |
| 2022/23 | 245 | 66.0 | 87% | 97% | +0.52 |
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
- Invicta Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.8applications per place 70.8Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.2 km · KentGraded · no overall grade20254.1applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 0.6 km · KentOutstanding20236.3applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · KentStandards maintained20243.1applications per place 67.0Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.8 km · KentOutstanding20235.3applications per place 62.7Attainment 8 Selective
- 2.0 km · KentGood20244.0applications per place 36.0Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Kent20262.0applications per place 35.4Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · KentRemains Good20243.8applications per place 66.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 2.8 km · Kent20262.9applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 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
- 136582 · 886/4058
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,319 pupils · 1,670 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Invicta Grammar School (URN 118792)
- Address
- Huntsman Lane, Maidstone, ME14 5DS
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources