Leigh Academy Longfield
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Longfield, 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 🔒
Leigh Academy Longfield is a secondary school in Longfield, Kent for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 September 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
Leigh Academy Longfield 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
- 2024/25: 26% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Kent.
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, whereas places ran out in all 3 earlier years of Year 7 entry.
- Across Kent, 27 of the 99 other secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome also offered every applicant a Year 7 place in 2026.
- 2026 Year 7 entry had 136 first-choice applications for 173 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 37 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
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
- Main Road, Longfield, DA3 7PH
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 992 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 September 2023
Strengths
- “This inclusive school has high expectations of all pupils’ achievement and behaviour.”
- “The school values of ‘being respectful, being aspirational and being caring’ are threaded through daily life here.”
- “Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), including those attending the specially resourced provision, The Spectrum Centre, are fully integrated into school life.”
To improve
- “Pupils say that bullying happens occasionally.”
- “Following the pandemic, pupils’ GCSE outcomes dipped.”
- “They did not achieve as well as they had done before the pandemic.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 November 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) | 26% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 40.2 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C | 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: 136 first-preference applications, 173 offers in total, 136 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.
- Northfleet School for Girls 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Meopham School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Northfleet Technology College 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Ebbsfleet 3.1 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend 3.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Comprehensive 4.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stone Lodge School 4.3 mi Good Last distance published