Secondary
Dover Christ Church Academy
Melbourne Avenue, Dover, CT16 2EG
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 761 of 990 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.3
- Local authority
- Kent
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- TURNER SCHOOLS
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 53.4
- All staff (FTE)
- 95.0
- Pupils per adult
- 8.6
- Pupils
- 815
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 October 2022
Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
- 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)GCSE results
8%
39 points below the Dover average (47% across 6 schools)
30.4
15.9 below the Dover average (46.3 across 6 schools)
5th of 6 by our score, among the secondary schools in Dover we can score - 7 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 | 30.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 2.35 |
| Entered the EBacc | 1% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 28% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 8% |
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 time2 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 23/24 | 9% |
| 24/25 | 8% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 23/24 | 27.7 |
| 24/25 | 30.4 |
Melbourne Avenue, Dover, CT16 2EG
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
- Matthew Tate
- Address
- Melbourne Avenue, Dover, CT16 2EG
- Telephone
- 01304820126