All-through
The Beacon Folkestone
Park Farm Road, Folkestone, CT19 5DN
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Foundation special school
- Ages
- 3 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 469 of 354 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 6.5
- Local authority
- Kent
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- Kent Special Educational Needs Trust (KSENT)
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 65.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 212.9
- Pupils per adult
- 2.0
- Pupils
- 421
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 June 2024
Outstanding
Still graded as at
Outstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
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)GCSE results
0%
0.3
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 95 |
| Average reading score | 100 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 0% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
| Attainment 8 | 0.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 0 |
| 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 time3 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 |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 23/24 | 97.0 |
| 24/25 | 100.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | -1.61 |
| 23/24 | -1.55 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 23/24 | 114.0 |
| 24/25 | 95.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 0.3 |
| 23/24 | 0.5 |
| 24/25 | 0.3 |
Park Farm Road, Folkestone, CT19 5DN
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
- Executive Headteacher
- Ady Young
- Address
- Park Farm Road, Folkestone, CT19 5DN
- Telephone
- 01303847555