Northfleet School for Girls

Foundation school·Secondary school Gravesend, Kent·DA11 8AQ
Composite score
53.8
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#2,061
National rank
#307
In South East
#45
In Kent
Top 65%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
43.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
37%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
64%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
3.77

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
86%
202 first choices, 219 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
562
any preference, for 219 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7620220.8120230.9520240.8320250.922026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Kent does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Northfleet School for Girls. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,302
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
38.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
21.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
30.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.9
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,897
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
90%
190 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
86%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Northfleet School for Girls at a glance

Located in Gravesend, Kent, Northfleet School for Girls is a girls' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. The school educates roughly 1,302 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 43.0, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 1.6 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

37% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 64% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 86% of the families who made Northfleet School for Girls their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 90% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.4%. There are about 15.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 38% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Northfleet School for Girls does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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