The Royal Harbour Academy

School overview

The Royal Harbour Academy is a secondary school serving Ramsgate, Kent, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 1,013 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated The Royal Harbour Academy 'Requires improvement'. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 28.9, well below the national average of 46. That is down 0.9 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.

16% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 34% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 76% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (233 first choices for 212 places). Overall pupil absence was 15.0%. There are about 15.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 64% 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. If you are considering The Royal Harbour Academy, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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.