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Selective secondary school in Ramsgate, Kent

Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School

Chatham Street, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 7PS

Selective Sixth form
School website 01843591075

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 24 September 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

64 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

85% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

97% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

76% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.30confidence interval 0.10 to 0.50

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
36.4

England average 32.3

A level students
225

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1334
Places
1600
How full
83% full — 1334 of 1600 places taken
Girls / boys
630 / 704
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
18%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
17%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
11%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
9%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
94%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
77%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
238

After sixth form

Went to university
60%

England 50%

In education, work or training
82%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
240

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

17% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
71%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
230

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Thanet 015D, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
26%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
46%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
37%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
CHATHAM & CLARENDON GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Headteacher
Headteacher: Debra Liddicoat
Local authority
Kent
Ward
Eastcliff
Constituency
East Thanet
URN
136382

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
St Lawrence CollegeOther independent school No grade 0.5 mi
The Royal Harbour AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2020 28.9 1.4 mi
Dane Court Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 65.3 1.7 mi
The Charles Dickens SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 42.5 1.7 mi
St George's Church of England Foundation SchoolFoundation school No grade 37.7 1.7 mi
Hartsdown AcademyAcademy converter No grade 32.1 3.6 mi
Ursuline CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 36.1 4.8 mi
King Ethelbert SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 36.8 4.9 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Testbourne Community SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 53.3
Watford Grammar School for BoysAcademy converter No grade 68.9
Newlands Girls' SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 55.6
Woodford County High SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 80.1
Spalding High SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2023 63
Wallington High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 80.5
Queens' SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.5
Braunton AcademyAcademy converter No grade 53.7

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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