Secondary
Holcombe Grammar School
Holcombe, Maidstone Road, Chatham, ME4 6JB
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Boys
- Pupils
- 1060 of 1000 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
- Local authority
- Medway
- Admissions
- Selective (grammar)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- THE THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 60.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 74.0
- Pupils per adult
- 14.0
- Pupils
- 1,033
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 March 2024
Good
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
85%
40 points above the Chatham average (45% across 7 schools)
62.4
17.4 above the Chatham average (45.0 across 7 schools)
2nd of 7 by our score, among the secondary schools in Chatham we can score - 9 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 | 62.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 5.97 |
| Entered the EBacc | 97% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 97% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 85% |
| A level average points per entry | 33.55 |
| A level students | 124 |
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 | 90% |
| 22/23 | 82% |
| 23/24 | 86% |
| 24/25 | 85% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 35.9 |
| 22/23 | 34.3 |
| 23/24 | 31.1 |
| 24/25 | 33.5 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.29 |
| 22/23 | +0.06 |
| 23/24 | +0.15 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 62.6 |
| 22/23 | 57.9 |
| 23/24 | 59.9 |
| 24/25 | 62.4 |
Holcombe, Maidstone Road, Chatham, ME4 6JB
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.
Medway 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
- Lee Preston
- Address
- Holcombe, Maidstone Road, Chatham, ME4 6JB
- Telephone
- 03333602130