The Holmesdale School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Snodland, 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 Holmesdale School is a secondary school in Snodland, Kent for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 1 April 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
The Holmesdale 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 applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, as at 27 of the 99 other Kent secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 104 first-choice applications for 151 offers, with 47 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 52 of the 221 applications (24%) came from families living outside Kent, and 23 offers went to them.
- 35% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25 (England 45%), 5th highest 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
- Malling Road, Snodland, ME6 5HS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 606 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 1 April 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils appreciate the school’s very strong, warm and welcoming ethos.”
- “Older pupils help younger pupils to integrate.”
- “This helps to further strengthen the culture as pupils move up through the school.”
To improve
- “However, in some more recently developed curriculums, teachers do not consistently use appropriate activities that help pupils to know, remember and use their knowledge as much as they could.”
- “This means that pupils’ knowledge does not always develop as securely as in the more established curriculum areas.”
- “However, in key stage 3, the positive learning culture is not as consistently embedded.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 May 2025 (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) | 35% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 41.6 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | E- | 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: 104 first-preference applications, 151 offers in total, 104 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.
- Aylesford School 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Malling School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Maplesden Noakes School 4.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Simon Stock Catholic School 4.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Maidstone Grammar School for Girls 4.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Augustine Academy 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oakwood Park Grammar School 4.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Meopham School 4.6 mi Good Last distance published