Graded inspection · Feb 2023 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in BexleySelective
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 |
Inspection history
- 28 February 2023Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 25 November 2021Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns)
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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 entry902 applications · 246 places offered · 190 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 3.7; Bexley median median 3.1
- 2025 3.8; Bexley median median 3.2
- 2024 3.7; Bexley median median 2.9
- 2023 4.0; Bexley median median 3.0
- 2022 4.3; Bexley median median 2.9
- 2021 6.6; Bexley median median 3.1
- 2020 4.1; Bexley median median 3.4
- 2019 4.3; Bexley median median 3.6
- 2018 4.2; Bexley median median 3.6
- 2017 4.3; Bexley median median 3.4
- 2016 3.9; Bexley median median 3.7
- 2015 4.1; Bexley median median 3.9
- 2014 3.6; Bexley median median 3.6
- This school
- Bexley 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 | 246 | 902 | 3.7 | 190 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2025 | 244 | 917 | 3.8 | 223 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2024 | 248 | 928 | 3.7 | 249 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 224 | 886 | 4.0 | 232 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2022 | 224 | 969 | 4.3 | 260 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2021 | 224 | 1,477 | 6.6 | 436 | 1.95 |
| Sep 2020 | 224 | 907 | 4.1 | 278 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2019 | 224 | 955 | 4.3 | 285 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2018 | 224 | 946 | 4.2 | 341 | 1.52 |
| Sep 2017 | 222 | 948 | 4.3 | 255 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2016 | 223 | 859 | 3.9 | 267 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2015 | 208 | 844 | 4.1 | 259 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2014 | 210 | 757 | 3.6 | 222 | 1.06 |
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.) | 224 | 74.8 | 98% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 224 | 75.0 | 97% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 219 | 76.2 | 97% | 100% | +0.66 |
| 2022/23 | 222 | 75.6 | 99% | 100% | +0.69 |
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
- Townley Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20233.7applications per place 74.8Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.9 km · BexleyGood20225.4applications per place 73.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.0 km · Bexley20262.3applications per place 47.3Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · BexleyStandards maintained20241.7applications per place 48.9Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Bexley20262.2applications per place 55.5Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · BexleyGraded · no overall grade20252.4applications per place 46.2Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · BexleyRequires improvement20222.1applications per place 42.4Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · BexleyOutstanding20226.6applications per place 72.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 2.7 km · Bexley20262.4applications per place 36.4Attainment 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
- 137769 · 303/4001
- Trust
- Townley Grammar School Trust
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,550 pupils · 1,669 on roll
- Free school meals
- 9.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2012
- Replaced
- Townley Grammar School for Girls (URN 101463)
- Address
- Townley Road, Bexleyheath, DA6 7AB
- Local authority
- Bexley
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources