Graded inspection · Apr 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in East Sussex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Inadequate | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Inadequate | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Inadequate |
Inspection history
- 23 April 2024Graded inspection: Inadequate · as Robertsbridge Community College, URN 114588
- 29 September 2022Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns) · as Robertsbridge Community College, URN 114588
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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 entry229 applications · 118 places offered · 76 named it first
- 2026 1.9; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2025 2.4; East Sussex median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2024 2.2; East Sussex median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2023 2.8; East Sussex median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2022 2.4; East Sussex median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2021 2.5; East Sussex median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2020 2.6; East Sussex median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 2.7; East Sussex median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 2.9; East Sussex median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 3.1; East Sussex median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2016 2.4; East Sussex median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2015 2.3; East Sussex median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2014 2.0; East Sussex median median 1.5; as the previous school
- This school
- East Sussex median
Dashed bars: as Robertsbridge Community College (URN 114588), 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 | 118 | 229 | 1.9 | 76 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2025 * | 92 | 216 | 2.4 | 73 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2024 * | 153 | 339 | 2.2 | 138 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2023 * | 140 | 390 | 2.8 | 158 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2022 * | 156 | 373 | 2.4 | 166 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2021 * | 137 | 339 | 2.5 | 134 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2020 * | 139 | 361 | 2.6 | 137 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2019 * | 143 | 390 | 2.7 | 155 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2018 * | 129 | 370 | 2.9 | 168 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2017 * | 128 | 398 | 3.1 | 173 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2016 * | 124 | 300 | 2.4 | 142 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2015 * | 122 | 284 | 2.3 | 127 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2014 * | 125 | 249 | 2.0 | 114 | 0.91 |
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.) | 135 | 40.3 | 41% | 54% | – |
| 2024/25 | – | ||||
| 2023/24 * | 141 | 44.0 | 48% | 71% | −0.63 |
| 2022/23 * | 140 | 37.7 | 29% | 50% | −0.88 |
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
- Robertsbridge Community CollegeThis schoolThis schoolSpecial measures Inadequate20241.9applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · East SussexRemains Good · improving20243.1applications per place 48.0Attainment 8
- 11.9 km · East SussexStandards maintained20251.9applications per place 46.4Attainment 8
- 13.1 km · East SussexGood20231.9applications per place 50.0Attainment 8
- 13.4 km · Kent20263.2applications per place 68.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 14.4 km · East Sussex20261.6applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 14.6 km · East SussexGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 15.3 km · East SussexSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade2025
- 15.9 km · East Sussex20261.5applications per place 38.5Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 151564 · 845/4010
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 750 pupils · 644 on roll
- Free school meals
- 25.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision and SEN unit
- Opened
- 1 March 2025
- Replaced
- Robertsbridge Community College (URN 114588)
- Address
- Knelle Road, Robertsbridge, TN32 5EA
- Local authority
- East Sussex · Rother
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources