King Ethelbert School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Birchington, Kent
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.998 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
King Ethelbert School is a secondary school in Birchington, Kent for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 June 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
King Ethelbert School 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 | 2.998 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 2.998 miles away, the 26th longest of 56 Kent secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The Year 7 last distance in 2026 was further from the school than in 2025 and 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Year 7 entry in 2026 had 144 first-choice applications for 150 offers; 127 offers went to first-choice families and 17 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 22% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 36.8 (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
- Canterbury Road, Birchington, CT7 9BL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 845 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils uphold these values and respond well to the school’s expectations of them.”
- “The school have designed a curriculum to ensure that there is ambition for all pupils.”
- “The high-quality pastoral support on offer to all pupils is based on the positive relationships between staff and pupils.”
To improve
- “Work is underway to strengthen this to ensure pupils understanding of diversity.”
- “However, in a small number of other subjects, the curriculum is still in the process of being developed.”
- “In these subjects, the key knowledge and order that pupils will learn is not always precisely identified.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 July 2024 (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) | 22% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 36.8 | 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: 144 first-preference applications, 150 offers in total, 127 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 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Hartsdown Academy 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Royal Harbour Academy 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dane Court Grammar School 4.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Charles Dickens School 4.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School 4.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sir Roger Manwood's School 7.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Sandwich Technology School 7.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published