Chilmington Green School
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–19 · Great Chart, Kent
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.824 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chilmington Green School is a secondary school in Great Chart, Kent for ages 11–19 (free schools). Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Chilmington Green 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 | 2.824 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 the last child offered a Year 7 place lived 2.824 miles away, the 28th longest of 56 Kent secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- The Year 7 last distance has swung sharply, most of all between 2024 and 2025; in 2026 it was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2024.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 164 first-choice applications for 184 offers; 125 offers went to first-choice families and 39 first-choice families (24%) were not offered a place.
- At 31.8%, the share of pupils eligible for free school meals is above the middle figure of 28.6% 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
- Chilmington Green Road, Great Chart, TN23 3DL
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 449 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 6 May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils value their time at Chilmington Green.”
- “Their attendance at school is consistently high.”
- “Pupils know that this will help them to thrive.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, pupils' knowledge is more varied, but this is improving rapidly.”
- “However, this knowledge is less detailed in some subjects.”
- “This is most evident in the small number of subjects that did not benefit from specialised teaching when the school first opened.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 164 first-preference applications, 184 offers in total, 125 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.
- Highworth Grammar School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The North School 3.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Norton Knatchbull School 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Towers School and Sixth Form Centre 4.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wye School 6.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre 6.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The Lenham School 8.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Brockhill Park Performing Arts College 11.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published