All-through
Valence School
Westerham Road, Westerham, TN16 1QN
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Foundation special school
- Ages
- 4 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 129 of 128 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Boarding
- Yes
- SEN provision
- OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, PD - Physical Disability
Ofsted
Last inspected June 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. 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.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
December 2019
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
GCSE results
0%
3.7
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | 0% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
| Attainment 8 | 3.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.31 |
| Entered the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0% |
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -1.87 |
| 22/23 | -1.99 |
| 23/24 | -1.72 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0.5 |
| 22/23 | 2.4 |
| 23/24 | 5.4 |
| 24/25 | 3.7 |
Westerham Road, Westerham, TN16 1QN
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 15 January, 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
- Principal
- Matthew Strange
- Address
- Westerham Road, Westerham, TN16 1QN
- Telephone
- 01959562156