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 entry599 applications · 176 places offered · 136 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.4; Kent median median 3.1
- 2025 3.3; Kent median median 3.0
- 2024 3.8; Kent median median 3.2
- 2023 3.8; Kent median median 3.2
- 2022 3.7; Kent median median 2.9
- 2021 5.2; Kent median median 3.6
- 2020 3.9; Kent median median 3.1
- 2019 3.5; Kent median median 2.9
- 2018 3.6; Kent median median 3.1
- 2017 3.7; Kent median median 3.0
- 2016 3.7; Kent median median 3.3
- 2015 3.6; Kent median median 3.2
- 2014 3.2; Kent median median 3.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Kent median
Dashed bars: as St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School (URN 118907), the previous school.
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 | 176 | 599 | 3.4 | 136 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2025 | 162 | 535 | 3.3 | 118 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2024 | 161 | 603 | 3.8 | 115 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2023 | 201 | 767 | 3.8 | 131 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2022 | 207 | 759 | 3.7 | 212 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2021 | 206 | 1,068 | 5.2 | 159 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2020 | 205 | 802 | 3.9 | 214 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2019 | 239 | 826 | 3.5 | 223 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2018 | 236 | 844 | 3.6 | 231 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2017 | 207 | 759 | 3.7 | 215 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2016 | 209 | 781 | 3.7 | 209 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 | 206 | 741 | 3.6 | 234 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2014 * | 179 | 566 | 3.2 | 171 | 0.96 |
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.) | 185 | 44.8 | 47% | 69% | – |
| 2024/25 | 210 | 43.8 | 42% | 66% | – |
| 2023/24 | 230 | 46.1 | 42% | 70% | +0.17 |
| 2022/23 | 236 | 47.4 | 51% | 76% | +0.25 |
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
- St Gregory's Catholic SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20243.4applications per place 44.8Attainment 8
- 0.1 km · Kent20263.9applications per place 64.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.7 km · KentOutstanding20234.5applications per place 72.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.0 km · Kent20265.5applications per place 72.7Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.3 km · KentOutstanding20233.9applications per place 53.4Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · KentGood20233.6applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · KentStandards maintained20245.4applications per place 77.0Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.9 km · KentGraded · no overall grade20243.3applications per place 69.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.1 km · KentGood20223.6applications per place 43.9Attainment 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
- 140640 · 886/5435
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,082 pupils · 1,093 on roll
- Free school meals
- 23.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 March 2014
- Replaced
- St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School (URN 118907)
- Address
- Reynolds Lane, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9XL
- Local authority
- Kent · Tunbridge Wells
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources