Secondary
The Archbishop's School
St Stephens Hill, Canterbury, CT2 7AP
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 770 of 900 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.3
- Local authority
- Kent
- Religious character
- Yes
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- Diocese
- Diocese of Canterbury
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 51.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 74.8
- Pupils per adult
- 9.8
- Pupils
- 731
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected November 2023
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formRequires improvement
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
February 2020
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentRequires improvement
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
GCSE results
21%
31 points below the Canterbury average (52% across 7 schools)
35.2
14.9 below the Canterbury average (50.1 across 7 schools)
6th of 7 by our score, among the secondary schools in Canterbury we can score - 10 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 35.2 |
| EBacc average point score | 2.88 |
| Entered the EBacc | 14% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 44% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 21% |
| A level average points per entry | 22.36 |
| A level students | 30 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 20% |
| 22/23 | 23% |
| 23/24 | 31% |
| 24/25 | 21% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 22.4 |
| 22/23 | 17.8 |
| 23/24 | 22.6 |
| 24/25 | 22.4 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.72 |
| 22/23 | -0.43 |
| 23/24 | -0.79 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 37.8 |
| 22/23 | 37.8 |
| 23/24 | 36.6 |
| 24/25 | 35.2 |
St Stephens Hill, Canterbury, CT2 7AP
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Kent admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- David Elliott
- Address
- St Stephens Hill, Canterbury, CT2 7AP
- Telephone
- 01227765805