Dover Christ Church Academy[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 36 35.8 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 35.8 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 27.3% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 0.7% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- -1.13 2023/24[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
Ofsted
No published data for this school.
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.7 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- Applications (any preference)
- 349 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- First preferences
- 137 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- Places offered
- 131 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- First preferences per place
- 1.0 Entry Sept 2026[6]
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
- 990[1]
- Trust
- TURNER SCHOOLS[1]
- Local authority
- Kent[1]
- Website
- https://www.dccacademy.com[1]
- District
- Dover[7]
- Postcode
- CT16 2EG[1]
- URN
- 150278[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 722 2024/25[8]
- English as an additional language
- 4.8% 2024/25[8]
- SEN support
- 18.1% 2024/25[8]
- EHC plan
- 11.6% 2024/25[8]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 50.6% 2024/25[8]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 91.6%[9]
- Mixed
- 3.8%[9]
- Asian
- 0.8%[9]
- Black
- 0.8%[9]
- Any other ethnic group
- 1.3%[9]
- Unclassified
- 1.7%[9]
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.
- 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.