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All-through school in Rochester, Medway

Leigh Academy Hundred of Hoo

Main Road, Hoo, Rochester, Kent, ME3 9HH

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form
School website 01634251443

Ofsted

Goodas at 20 March 2024

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 20 March 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

43.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

39% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

65% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

78% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.07confidence interval -0.24 to 0.11

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
D+
Average points per entry
24.6

England average 32.3

A level students
62

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1829
Places
1900
How full
Nearly full — 1829 of 1900 places taken
Girls / boys
896 / 933
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
23%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
27%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
18%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
89%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
81%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
43%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
236

After sixth form

Went to university
39%

England 50%

In education, work or training
84%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
9%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
64

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

2% 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
46%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
63

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 Medway 003D, 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
17%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
27%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
63%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
20%

England 17%

Households with no car
19%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
41%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Carl Guerin-Hassett
Local authority
Medway
Ward
Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow
Constituency
Rochester and Strood
URN
137119

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Waterfront UTCUniversity technical college Good 2023 30 1.7 mi
Maritime AcademyFree schools No grade 2.2 mi
Brompton AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.1 2.7 mi
The Robert Napier SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.5 3.1 mi
King's School, RochesterOther independent school No grade 3.1 mi
Rochester Independent CollegeOther independent school No grade 3.2 mi
Fort Pitt Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 65.9 3.3 mi
Chatham GrammarAcademy converter Good 2023 61.8 3.3 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through 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
Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England AcademyAcademy converter No grade 56.7
Queen Mary's Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 74.2
King Edward VI Handsworth SchoolAcademy converter No grade 74.2
Blue Coat Church of England School and Music CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 51.2
The Joseph Whitaker SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.2
Magna AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 44.3
Cambridge Academy for Science and TechnologyUniversity technical college Good 2023 56.8
Maricourt Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 44.5

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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