Secondary
Barton Court Grammar School
Longport, Canterbury, CT1 1PH
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 995 of 1050 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Admissions
- Selective (grammar)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- BARTON COURT ACADEMY TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected November 2024
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- 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
February 2020
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
GCSE results
85%
66.4
3rd 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 | 66.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 6.37 |
| Entered the EBacc | 91% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 97% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 85% |
| A level average points per entry | 37.51 |
| A level students | 135 |
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 | 86% |
| 22/23 | 82% |
| 23/24 | 84% |
| 24/25 | 85% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 43.1 |
| 22/23 | 35.0 |
| 23/24 | 37.3 |
| 24/25 | 37.5 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.46 |
| 22/23 | +0.15 |
| 23/24 | +0.38 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 67.3 |
| 22/23 | 63.5 |
| 23/24 | 66.0 |
| 24/25 | 66.4 |
Longport, Canterbury, CT1 1PH
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
- Jonathan Hopkins
- Address
- Longport, Canterbury, CT1 1PH
- Telephone
- 01227464600