Hadlow Rural Community School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 39 39.3 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 39.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 27.4% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 3.2% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.08 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	36.3[5]	30.4%[5]
2023/24	37.7[3]	28.3%[3]	-0.08[3]
2022/23	33.5[6]	22%[6]	-0.47[6]
2021/22	40.6[7]	34%[7]	-0.28[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 83% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 22% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 0% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 54% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 4% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	87%[9]	34%[9]	0%[9]	38%[9]	6%[9]	7%[9]
2020/21	88%[10]	28%[10]	0%[10]	49%[10]	4%[10]	6%[10]
2019/20	88%[11]	21%[11]	0%[11]	56%[11]	5%[11]	5%[11]
2018/19	88%[12]	14%[12]	0%[12]	61%[12]	5%[12]	4%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 18 Jun 2024[13]
Type: S5 Inspection[13]
Report published: 17 Sep 2024[13]
Personal development: Good[13]
Quality of education: Requires improvement[13]
Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement[13]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Requires improvement[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
26 Feb 2019[14]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14]	No overall grade[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.9 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference): 302 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences: 109 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered: 77 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place: 1.4 Entry Sept 2026[15]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	258[15]	72[15]	89[15]	2.9[15]	0.8[15]
Entry Sept 2024	257[15]	74[15]	97[15]	2.6[15]	0.8[15]
Entry Sept 2023	277[15]	86[15]	96[15]	2.9[15]	0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2022	255[15]	105[15]	95[15]	2.7[15]	1.1[15]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Capacity: 375[1]
Trust: HADLOW RURAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL LIMITED[1]
Local authority: Kent[1]
Website: www.hrcschool.org [1]
District: Tonbridge and Malling [16]
Postcode: TN11 0AU[1]
URN: 139697[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 391 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language: 1.8% 2024/25[17]
SEN support: 27.9% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan: 8.4% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 31.2% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 93.4%[18]
Mixed: 3.7%[18]
Asian: 0.3%[18]
Black: 0.3%[18]
Any other ethnic group: 0.5%[18]
Unclassified: 1.9%[18]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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