New Line Learning Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Kent County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
New Line Learning Academy is a secondary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 13 May 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
New Line Learning 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Year 7 applicant in 2026 was offered a place, as at 27 of the 99 other Kent secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- For Year 7 2026 there were 91 first-choice applications for 206 offers, 0.4 first choices per offer, the 2nd lowest of 99 Kent secondary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a place for Year 7 2026, and 115 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 18% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 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
- Boughton Lane, Maidstone, ME15 9QL
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 826 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 50.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 13 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils recognise how the recent improvements made to the school are beginning to help them learn and achieve more.”
- “The school has high expectations for what it wants pupils to attain before they move on to their next stage of education, training or employment.”
- “The school’s new leaders recognise this and are taking appropriate action to raise pupils’ attainment across the school.”
To improve
- “However, current inconsistencies in the teaching of the curriculum mean too many pupils still find it difficult to articulate and apply their learning.”
- “In the past, pupils have not achieved well enough in their key stage 4 examinations to be well prepared for their next steps.”
- “However, while the curriculum is now well designed, there is inconsistency in how well it is taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2025 (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) | 18% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 32.2 | 46 |
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: 91 first-preference applications, 206 offers in total, 91 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.
- Maidstone Grammar School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cornwallis Academy 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Valley Park School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- School of Science and Technology Maidstone 1.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Invicta Grammar School 1.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Oakwood Park Grammar School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Augustine Academy 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Simon Stock Catholic School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published