Hartsdown Academy
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Margate, Kent
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.664 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hartsdown Academy is a secondary school in Margate, Kent for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
Hartsdown 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 | 3.664 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 entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 3.664 miles away, the 23rd longest of 56 Kent secondary schools with a published last distance.
- Every applicant was offered a place in 3 of the 4 Year 7 years with a published outcome.
- Year 7 entry in 2026 had 103 first-choice applications for 144 offers; 101 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 20% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 32.1 (England 46).
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
- George V Avenue, Margate, CT9 5RE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 868 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 61.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 24 February 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend Hartsdown.”
- “The school works hard to overcome these challenges.”
- “They do this through the carefully designed support that pupils receive.”
To improve
- “However, achievement in national tests remains below national averages.”
- “However, a significant minority of pupils do not yet reach the expected standards in mathematics and English.”
- “However, pupils do not yet attend well enough.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2026 (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) | 20% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 32.1 | 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: 103 first-preference applications, 144 offers in total, 101 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.
- Ursuline College 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- King Ethelbert School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- The Royal Harbour Academy 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dane Court Grammar School 2.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The Charles Dickens School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sir Roger Manwood's School 7.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Sandwich Technology School 8.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published