St Gregory's Catholic School

Academy converter·Secondary school Tunbridge Wells, Kent·TN4 9XL
Composite score
54.8
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#1,940
National rank
#295
In South East
#43
In Kent
Top 61%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
43.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
42%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
66%
% EBacc grade 5+
12%
EBacc average points score
3.78

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
90%
136 first choices, 176 places
First choices per place
0.77
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
599
any preference, for 176 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.05
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1 per place
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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 St Gregory's Catholic School. 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
1,177
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
18.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
26.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,445
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
94%
236 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
92%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

St Gregory's Catholic School at a glance

Located in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, St Gregory's Catholic School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 1,177 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 43.8, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That is down 2.3 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.

42% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 66% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 90% of the families who made St Gregory's Catholic School 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, 94% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.1%. There are about 18.5 pupils per teacher. St Gregory's Catholic School 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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