The Royal Harbour Academy[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 31 31.1 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 31.1 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 16.2% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 2% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- -1.02 2023/24[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 19 May 2026[6]
- Type
- Academy First Section 5[6]
- Report published
- 12 Jul 2026[6]
- Inclusion
- Expected standard[6]
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement[6]
- Category of concern
- RSI[6]
- Safeguarding standards
- Met[6]
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention[6]
- Attendance and behaviour
- Needs attention[6]
- Leadership and governance
- Needs attention[6]
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard[6]
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Expected standard[6]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.3 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- Applications (any preference)
- 489 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- First preferences
- 233 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- Places offered
- 212 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- First preferences per place
- 1.1 Entry Sept 2026[7]
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
- 916[1]
- Trust
- COASTAL ACADEMIES TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Kent[1]
- Website
- www.rha.kent.sch.uk[1]
- District
- Thanet[8]
- Postcode
- CT12 6FA[1]
- URN
- 149554[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 1013 2024/25[9]
- English as an additional language
- 10.2% 2024/25[9]
- SEN support
- 29.8% 2024/25[9]
- EHC plan
- 6.9% 2024/25[9]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 63.6% 2024/25[9]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 92.6%[10]
- Mixed
- 4.1%[10]
- Asian
- 0.6%[10]
- Black
- 1.5%[10]
- Any other ethnic group
- 0.8%[10]
- Unclassified
- 0.4%[10]
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.
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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.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2025/26. 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.