Secondary
The Sittingbourne School
Swanstree Avenue, Sittingbourne, ME10 4NL
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1556 of 1350 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.5
- Local authority
- Kent
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- Trust
- SWALE ACADEMIES TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 104.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 155.7
- Pupils per adult
- 10.3
- Pupils
- 1,609
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 2023
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
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
November 2017
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
GCSE results
24%
25 points below the Sittingbourne average (49% across 5 schools)
34.1
12.8 below the Sittingbourne average (46.9 across 5 schools)
4th of 5 by our score, among the secondary schools in Sittingbourne we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 34.1 |
| EBacc average point score | 2.71 |
| Entered the EBacc | 8% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 48% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 24% |
| A level average points per entry | 24.02 |
| A level students | 34 |
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 | 31% |
| 22/23 | 22% |
| 23/24 | 21% |
| 24/25 | 24% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 30.6 |
| 22/23 | 25.1 |
| 23/24 | 28.9 |
| 24/25 | 24.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.54 |
| 22/23 | -0.53 |
| 23/24 | -0.70 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 38.5 |
| 22/23 | 36.6 |
| 23/24 | 33.2 |
| 24/25 | 34.1 |
Swanstree Avenue, Sittingbourne, ME10 4NL
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
- Trust Principal
- Nick Smith
- Address
- Swanstree Avenue, Sittingbourne, ME10 4NL
- Telephone
- 01795472449