Cornwallis Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–19 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.785 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cornwallis Academy is a secondary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 11–19 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 January 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
Cornwallis Academy catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.785 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.785 miles away, the 17th shortest of 56 Kent secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Year 7 distance was nearer than in 2025 and in 2023, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years.
- In 2026 Year 7 entry, 283 first-choice applications for 201 offers: 185 offers went to first-choice families, and 98 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 2024/25 GCSE English and maths grade 5 or above: 36% (England 45%), the 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Kent.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Kent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hubbards Lane, Linton, Maidstone, ME17 4HX
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 1,402 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 January 2023
Strengths
- “They embrace the Cornwallis ‘SMILE’ ethos with its aim to motivate, inspire, excite and engage all pupils to be successful.”
- “Relationships are supportive, and pupils say that teachers are kind and helpful.”
- “A strong sense of community permeates the whole school.”
To improve
- “However, leaders recognise that currently, too few pupils take a modern foreign language.”
- “This seriously limits the proportion of pupils gaining the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).”
- “A small number of subjects have suffered from staffing shortages.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 36% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 38.6 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | D | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 283 first-preference applications, 201 offers in total, 185 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Kent.
- New Line Learning Academy 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Maidstone Grammar School 2.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Oakwood Park Grammar School 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Augustine Academy 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Simon Stock Catholic School 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Valley Park School 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Invicta Grammar School 3.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- School of Science and Technology Maidstone 3.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published