Secondary
The Lenham School
Ham Lane, Lenham, Maidstone, ME17 2LL
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 820 of 1012 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- VALLEY INVICTA ACADEMIES TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected February 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- 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
November 2019
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
GCSE results
16%
37.0
10th of 12 by our score, among the secondary schools in Maidstone we can score - 15 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 | 37 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.11 |
| Entered the EBacc | 27% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 43% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 16% |
| A level students | 3 |
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 | 24% |
| 22/23 | 20% |
| 23/24 | 26% |
| 24/25 | 16% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.32 |
| 22/23 | -0.25 |
| 23/24 | -0.32 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 38.9 |
| 22/23 | 38.3 |
| 23/24 | 38.6 |
| 24/25 | 37.0 |
Ham Lane, Lenham, Maidstone, ME17 2LL
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
- Head of School
- Robbie Ferguson
- Address
- Ham Lane, Lenham, Maidstone, ME17 2LL
- Telephone
- 01622858267