The Sittingbourne School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–19 · Sittingbourne, 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 🔒
The Sittingbourne School is a secondary school in Sittingbourne, Kent for ages 11–19 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 March 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
The Sittingbourne 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 | 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 was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out in all 3 earlier years, when a last distance was published.
- Year 7 2026: 187 first-choice applications for 275 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 88 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 24% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%).
- That 2024/25 result was 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
- Swanstree Avenue, Sittingbourne, ME10 4NL
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 1,556 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 March 2023
Strengths
- “Staff have high aspirations for what all pupils can learn and achieve.”
- “This level of ambition is evident throughout the school.”
- “This includes in the specially resourced provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), which includes specially designed courses.”
To improve
- “However, currently, too few pupils study the ambitious range of subjects required for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) performance measure.”
- “However, suspensions from school and persistent absence both impact on some pupils’ learning.”
- “Leaders use suspensions appropriately, but they continue to be too frequent.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 May 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) | 24% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 34.1 | 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: 187 first-preference applications, 275 offers in total, 187 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.
- Highsted Grammar School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Fulston Manor School 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Borden Grammar School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Westlands School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Abbey School 5.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Minster 6.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School 6.1 mi Good Last distance published
- The Lenham School 6.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published