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All-through school in Gravesend, Kent

Saint George's Church of England School

Meadow Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 7LS

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Church of England Full
School website 01474533082

Ofsted

Goodas at 17 October 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 17 October 2023.

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

41.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

29% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

57% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

29% 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

-0.05confidence interval -0.26 to 0.16

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
24.9

England average 32.3

A level students
110

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1631
Places
1410
How full
Full — 1631 pupils against 1410 places
Girls / boys
773 / 858
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
17%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
22%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
14%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
87%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
53%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
206

After sixth form

Went to university
46%

England 50%

In education, work or training
81%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
13%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
103

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

6% 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
58%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
101

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 Gravesham 005E, 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
30%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
18%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
71%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
13%

England 17%

Households with no car
18%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
35%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ALETHEIA ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Simon Murphy
Local authority
Kent
Ward
Woodlands
Constituency
Gravesham
URN
137609

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Mayfield Grammar School, GravesendAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 64.3 0.6 mi
Northfleet Technology CollegeFoundation school Good 2022 35.7 0.8 mi
Northfleet School for GirlsFoundation school No grade 43 0.9 mi
St John's Catholic ComprehensiveVoluntary aided school No grade 42.1 1.1 mi
Gravesend Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 65.3 1.1 mi
Thamesview SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 34.3 1.6 mi
Leigh Academy EbbsfleetAcademy sponsor led No grade 42.5 2.3 mi
Alkerden Church of England AcademyFree schools No grade 2.9 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
Archway SchoolCommunity school No grade 43.3
Barnwell SchoolFoundation school No grade 41.5
Queen Mary's High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 73.5
Flixton Girls SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 48.3
The Chalfonts Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 38.9
Ratton SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 43
Polam Hall SchoolFree schools No grade 44.6
Leek High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 38.1

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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