Greenacre School

Academy converter·Secondary school Chatham, Medway·ME5 0LP
Composite score
37.2
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#3,151
National rank
#478
In South East
#17
In Medway
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
29.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
17%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
38%
% EBacc grade 5+
5%
EBacc average points score
2.53

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Inadequate
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
86 first choices, 128 places
First choices per place
0.67
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
159
any preference, for 128 places
Applications from another council area
8%

Every child who put Greenacre School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
861
Gender
Boys

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
32.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
9.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.1%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
39.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.8
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,481
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

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Location

Greenacre School at a glance

Located in Chatham, Medway, Greenacre School is a boys' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 861 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Inadequate' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 29.8, well below the national average of 46. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

17% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 38% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Greenacre School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 86 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 12.4%. There are about 15.8 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Greenacre School, 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.

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