Aylesford School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 37 37.2 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL D+ D+ 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 37.2 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 21% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 1.8% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.84 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	37.6[6]	20.4%[6]
2023/24	35.3[4]	20.3%[4]	-0.84[4]
2022/23	39.7[7]	27%[7]	-0.22[7]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: D+ 2024/25[3]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade
2023/24	D+[8]
2022/23	D-[9]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 83% 2022/23[10]
School sixth form: 33% 2022/23[10]
Sixth-form college: 0% 2022/23[10]
Further education college: 39% 2022/23[10]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[10]
Employment: 5% 2022/23[10]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 87% 2022/23[11]
UK higher education: 21% 2022/23[11]
Education: 23% 2022/23[11]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[11]
Employment: 62% 2022/23[11]

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: 29 Apr 2025[12]
Type: Academy First Section 5[12]
Report published: 24 Jun 2025[12]
Personal development: Good[12]
Quality of education: Requires improvement[12]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[12]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[12]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Good[12]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Requires improvement[12]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.2 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Applications (any preference): 364 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences: 88 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Places offered: 166 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences per place: 0.5 Entry Sept 2026[13]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	501[13]	133[13]	177[13]	2.8[13]	0.8[13]
Entry Sept 2024	503[13]	164[13]	178[13]	2.8[13]	0.9[13]
Entry Sept 2023	423[13]	134[13]	178[13]	2.4[13]	0.8[13]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1044[1]
Trust: CHARACTER EDUCATION TRUST[1]
Local authority: Kent[1]
Website: www.aylesford.kent.sch.uk [1]
District: Tonbridge and Malling [14]
Postcode: ME20 7JU[1]
URN: 149319[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 905 2024/25[15]
English as an additional language: 3.5% 2024/25[15]
SEN support: 21.1% 2024/25[15]
EHC plan: 1.1% 2024/25[15]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 25.4% 2024/25[15]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 92.9%[16]
Mixed: 4%[16]
Asian: 0.5%[16]
Black: 1.9%[16]
Any other ethnic group: 0.4%[16]
Unclassified: 0.2%[16]

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: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2024/25, final. 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.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.