Hadlow Rural Community School
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–16 · Hadlow, Kent
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Not published
From Kent County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hadlow Rural Community School is a secondary school in Hadlow, Kent for ages 11–16 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 18 June 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
Hadlow Rural Community 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 | Not published |
| 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 in 2026 there were 109 first-choice applications for 77 offers; 74 offers went to first-choice families, and 35 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2025, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in 1 of the 2 earlier years.
- In 2024/25, 30% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Kent.
- The school has 12.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 17.9 across 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
- Tonbridge Road, Hadlow, TN11 0AU
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 377 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 18 June 2024
Strengths
- “The school aims to develop pupils’ love of learning as well as their ability to be kind, caring, courteous and considerate.”
- “There are high expectations for pupils’ academic achievement.”
- “Pupils are safe in this school.”
To improve
- “However, pupils’ performance in recent public examinations has been disappointing.”
- “In particular, the gap between the performance of disadvantaged pupils and their peers remains too large.”
- “However, not all areas of the curriculum are as well planned or implemented.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 September 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) | 30% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 36.3 | 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: 109 first-preference applications, 77 offers in total, 74 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.
- Leigh Academy Hugh Christie 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hillview School for Girls 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Weald of Kent Grammar School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Tonbridge Grammar School 3.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Judd School 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Tonbridge 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Mascalls 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wrotham School 5.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published