Which school had the best GCSE results in Kent in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School topped the table in Kent with 85.8, against an England average of 45.9. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Kent GCSE results?

This page is the 2024 archive (the 2023/24 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Kent are on the main Kent GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. Progress 8 measures the same pupils against others nationally with the same primary-school starting point.

Why does a school in Kent show no 2024 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2024 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Kent GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

100 state secondary schools in Kent ranked on their 2024 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2023/24 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 26 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2024 archive of the table. See the latest Kent GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

County 159 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Kent ranked on Attainment 8

100 of 159 schools have published 2024 results; the top 100 are shown here. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Kent ranked on Attainment 8, 2024 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	45.9	0.00	46%	65%	4.07	–
1	St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School Orpington · Voluntary aided school	85.8	+1.27 (1.00 to 1.54)	100%	100%	8.45	126
2	Newstead Wood School Orpington · Academy converter	80.2	+1.05 (0.82 to 1.28)	98%	100%	7.36	159
3 , up 1 place since 2023	Tonbridge Grammar School Tonbridge · Academy converter	79.4	+0.75 (0.51 to 0.99)	100%	100%	7.86	175
4 , up 1 place since 2023	The Judd School Tonbridge · Voluntary aided school	78.5	+0.85 (0.61 to 1.08)	97%	98%	7.37	189
5 , down 2 places since 2023	Dartford Grammar School Dartford · Academy converter	78.4	+1.11 (0.90 to 1.32)	98%	100%	7.83	184
6	Townley Grammar School Bexleyheath · Academy converter	76.2	+0.66 (0.46 to 0.85)	97%	100%	6.88	219
7 , up 3 places since 2023	Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School Sidcup · Academy converter	76.0	+0.82 (0.61 to 1.03)	97%	100%	7.39	190
8 , down 1 place since 2023	Dartford Grammar School for Girls Dartford · Academy converter	75.3	+0.82 (0.61 to 1.03)	99%	100%	7.25	179
9 , down 1 place since 2023	Bexley Grammar School Welling · Academy converter	74.7	+0.49 (0.30 to 0.68)	98%	100%	7.35	223
10 , up 2 places since 2023	The Skinners' School Tunbridge Wells · Academy converter	74.1	+0.99 (0.75 to 1.23)	99%	100%	7.21	159
11 , down 1 place since 2023	Beths Grammar School Bexley · Academy converter	72.0	+0.53 (0.33 to 0.73)	96%	100%	6.42	191
12 , up 1 place since 2023	The Rochester Grammar School Rochester · Academy converter	71.6	+0.67 (0.45 to 0.89)	97%	100%	6.88	168
13 , up 9 places since 2023	Invicta Grammar School Maidstone · Academy converter	71.1	+0.79 (0.61 to 0.97)	93%	99%	6.95	249
14	Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School Rochester · Academy converter	70.3	+0.90 (0.70 to 1.09)	98%	100%	6.90	204
15 , up 4 places since 2023	Wilmington Grammar School for Girls Dartford · Academy converter	70.2	+0.76 (0.53 to 0.99)	97%	100%	6.77	146
16= , down 7 places since 2023	Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School Tunbridge Wells · Foundation school	70.1	+0.77 (0.52 to 1.03)	94%	99%	6.85	144
16= , down 2 places since 2023	Weald of Kent Grammar School Tonbridge · Academy converter	70.1	+0.77 (0.60 to 0.93)	91%	98%	6.46	302
18 , up 4 places since 2023	Cranbrook School Cranbrook · Academy converter	69.1	–	94%	100%	6.76	149
19 , down 3 places since 2023	Highworth Grammar School Ashford · Academy converter	68.8	+0.65 (0.46 to 0.85)	89%	98%	6.54	217
20 , down 3 places since 2023	Dane Court Grammar School Broadstairs · Academy converter	68.6	+0.69 (0.48 to 0.91)	94%	96%	6.53	172
21 , up 3 places since 2023	Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School Canterbury · Voluntary controlled school	66.9	+0.43 (0.20 to 0.66)	90%	97%	6.03	167
22 , up 4 places since 2023	Maidstone Grammar School Maidstone · Foundation school	66.6	+0.50 (0.31 to 0.69)	88%	99%	6.27	216
23= , up 8 places since 2023	Fort Pitt Grammar School Chatham · Academy converter	66.5	+0.64 (0.41 to 0.87)	87%	95%	6.37	149
23= , down 3 places since 2023	Wilmington Grammar School for Boys Dartford · Academy converter	66.5	+0.65 (0.42 to 0.88)	93%	97%	6.09	148
25 , up 4 places since 2023	Maidstone Grammar School for Girls Maidstone · Foundation school	66.3	+0.57 (0.36 to 0.77)	86%	98%	6.37	183
26= , up 4 places since 2023	Barton Court Grammar School Canterbury · Academy converter	66.0	+0.38 (0.14 to 0.61)	84%	96%	6.29	141
26= , down 8 places since 2023	Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys Canterbury · Foundation school	66.0	+0.25 (0.02 to 0.49)	92%	96%	5.82	160
28 , down 1 place since 2023	Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend Gravesend · Academy converter	65.3	+0.38 (0.17 to 0.59)	91%	98%	6.03	184
29 , down 8 places since 2023	Oakwood Park Grammar School Maidstone · Academy converter	64.9	+0.62 (0.39 to 0.85)	96%	97%	6.16	156
30 , up 7 places since 2023	Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School Ramsgate · Academy converter	64.6	+0.30 (0.10 to 0.50)	85%	95%	6.15	203
31=	The Norton Knatchbull School Ashford · Academy converter	64.2	+0.32 (0.12 to 0.52)	86%	97%	6.19	205
31= , up 7 places since 2023	Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys Tunbridge Wells · Community school	64.2	+0.46 (0.27 to 0.66)	88%	98%	6.10	235
33 , up 2 places since 2023	Rainham Mark Grammar School Gillingham · Academy converter	63.4	+0.28 (0.10 to 0.46)	92%	98%	6.08	236
34= , down 9 places since 2023	Gravesend Grammar School Gravesend · Academy converter	63.2	+0.18 (-0.03 to 0.39)	89%	97%	6.13	185
34= , down 1 place since 2023	Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Faversham · Academy converter	63.2	+0.15 (-0.08 to 0.37)	88%	96%	5.82	154
34= , up 6 places since 2023	Sir Roger Manwood's School Sandwich · Academy converter	63.2	+0.21 (-0.03 to 0.45)	86%	98%	5.98	159
37 , down 4 places since 2023	Borden Grammar School Sittingbourne · Academy converter	63.1	+0.26 (0.01 to 0.51)	85%	99%	5.86	123
38 , down 2 places since 2023	The Harvey Grammar School Folkestone · Academy converter	62.9	+0.24 (0.01 to 0.48)	86%	97%	5.89	139
39 , down 11 places since 2023	The Folkestone School for Girls Folkestone · Academy converter	61.8	+0.29 (0.08 to 0.50)	81%	95%	5.63	174
40 , up 6 places since 2023	Highsted Grammar School Sittingbourne · Academy converter	60.6	-0.04 (-0.27 to 0.19)	76%	92%	5.78	148
41 , up 1 place since 2023	Chatham Grammar Chatham · Academy converter	60.1	+0.36 (0.14 to 0.57)	78%	97%	5.77	179
42 , up 3 places since 2023	Holcombe Grammar School Chatham · Academy converter	59.9	+0.15 (-0.09 to 0.39)	86%	98%	5.67	137
43 , down 2 places since 2023	Dover Grammar School for Girls Dover · Community school	59.3	+0.17 (-0.08 to 0.42)	72%	95%	5.67	124
44 , down 5 places since 2023	Dover Grammar School for Boys Dover · Foundation school	59.1	+0.54 (0.30 to 0.79)	80%	94%	5.33	127
45 , up 1 place since 2023	Harris Girls Academy Bromley Beckenham · Academy converter	58.6	+0.99 (0.77 to 1.21)	70%	82%	5.70	165
46 , up 2 places since 2023	Bullers Wood School Chislehurst · Academy converter	56.3	+0.37 (0.18 to 0.56)	64%	80%	5.15	229
47= , down 3 places since 2023	Bennett Memorial Diocesan School Tunbridge Wells · Academy converter	56.0	+0.73 (0.55 to 0.90)	61%	84%	5.34	294
47= , up 2 places since 2023	Langley Park School for Boys Beckenham · Academy converter	56.0	+0.40 (0.21 to 0.59)	70%	83%	5.16	222
49 , up 1 place since 2023	St Catherine's Catholic School Bexleyheath · Academy converter	55.8	+0.75 (0.55 to 0.95)	63%	81%	5.05	202
50 , down 7 places since 2023	Langley Park School for Girls Beckenham · Academy converter	55.4	+0.40 (0.21 to 0.58)	72%	85%	5.31	236
51 , up 2 places since 2023	Duke of York's Royal Military School Dover · Academy sponsor led	55.1	+0.67 (0.33 to 1.01)	60%	81%	4.87	96
52	Harris Academy Beckenham Beckenham · Academy sponsor led	54.1	+0.38 (0.18 to 0.59)	64%	76%	5.01	192
53 , down 2 places since 2023	Hayes School Bromley · Academy converter	52.9	+0.09 (-0.08 to 0.27)	61%	83%	4.83	247
54 , up 1 place since 2023	Chislehurst School for Girls Chislehurst · Academy converter	51.3	+0.18 (-0.03 to 0.39)	57%	77%	4.67	181
55 , up 1 place since 2023	Darrick Wood School Orpington · Academy converter	50.3	+0.00 (-0.18 to 0.17)	56%	79%	4.71	254
56 , up 1 place since 2023	Trinity School Sevenoaks · Free schools	50.0	+0.26 (0.05 to 0.48)	49%	69%	4.42	177
57	Hillview School for Girls Tonbridge · Academy converter	49.5	+0.37 (0.18 to 0.57)	53%	76%	3.08	216
58 , up 9 places since 2023	Wye School Wye · Free schools	48.9	+0.35 (0.09 to 0.62)	48%	74%	4.66	126
59 , up 3 places since 2023	Orion Ravensbourne Bromley · Academy converter	48.4	+0.11 (-0.09 to 0.31)	51%	74%	4.17	204
60 , up 16 places since 2023	St Simon Stock Catholic School Maidstone · Academy converter	47.9	+0.21 (0.00 to 0.42)	44%	71%	4.14	178
61= , up 3 places since 2023	Harris Garrard Academy Erith · Academy sponsor led	47.5	+0.54 (0.33 to 0.75)	46%	64%	4.24	194
61= , down 7 places since 2023	Ravens Wood School Bromley · Academy converter	47.5	-0.13 (-0.32 to 0.05)	49%	75%	4.41	237
63 , up 16 places since 2023	St Columba's Catholic Boys' School Bexleyheath · Academy converter	47.4	+0.04 (-0.18 to 0.26)	50%	68%	4.07	169
64= , down 1 place since 2023	Blackfen School for Girls Sidcup · Academy converter	46.9	-0.14 (-0.34 to 0.05)	46%	68%	3.89	223
64= , up 5 places since 2023	Haberdashers' Knights Academy Bromley · Academy sponsor led	46.9	+0.18 (-0.03 to 0.39)	47%	68%	4.38	199
66= , up 13 places since 2023	Rainham School for Girls Gillingham · Academy converter	46.1	+0.33 (0.16 to 0.49)	40%	64%	3.96	281
66= , down 5 places since 2023	St Gregory's Catholic School Tunbridge Wells · Academy converter	46.1	+0.17 (-0.02 to 0.36)	42%	70%	4.03	230
68= , down 9 places since 2023	Harris Academy Falconwood Welling · Academy sponsor led	45.8	-0.02 (-0.22 to 0.18)	41%	64%	4.06	198
68= , up 6 places since 2023	Leigh Academy Wilmington Wilmington · Academy sponsor led	45.8	+0.23 (0.05 to 0.42)	44%	66%	4.31	230
70 , up 7 places since 2023	Leigh Academy Tonbridge Tonbridge · Academy converter	45.7	+0.07 (-0.26 to 0.40)	45%	72%	4.38	76
71 , down 7 places since 2023	Orion Coopers Chislehurst · Academy converter	45.4	-0.38 (-0.56 to -0.20)	49%	69%	4.11	231
72	Stone Lodge School Dartford · Free schools	44.9	-0.15 (-0.41 to 0.11)	44%	68%	4.01	118
73= , up 28 places since 2023	Leigh Academy Ebbsfleet Swanscombe · Academy sponsor led	44.8	-0.13 (-0.39 to 0.14)	34%	59%	3.97	138
73= , up 31 places since 2023	Skinners' Kent Academy Tunbridge Wells · Academy sponsor led	44.8	+0.00 (-0.21 to 0.21)	48%	69%	4.20	194
75 , down 5 places since 2023	Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy Dartford · Academy sponsor led	44.5	+0.14 (-0.06 to 0.33)	37%	62%	3.97	211
76 , down 6 places since 2023	Haberdashers' Crayford Academy Dartford · Academy sponsor led	44.3	-0.13 (-0.35 to 0.10)	43%	64%	3.78	164
77 , up 14 places since 2023	The Charles Dickens School Broadstairs · Academy sponsor led	43.9	+0.22 (0.03 to 0.41)	31%	59%	3.46	211
78= , up 4 places since 2023	Cleeve Park School Sidcup · Academy converter	43.6	-0.19 (-0.40 to 0.03)	38%	62%	3.67	170
78= , down 4 places since 2023	St John's Catholic Comprehensive Gravesend · Voluntary aided school	43.6	+0.11 (-0.09 to 0.31)	41%	64%	3.62	196
80 , up 16 places since 2023	Saint George's Church of England School Gravesend · Academy converter	43.5	-0.05 (-0.26 to 0.16)	37%	69%	3.75	177
81 , up 33 places since 2023	Harris Academy Orpington Academy sponsor led	43.0	+0.15 (-0.11 to 0.40)	35%	58%	4.05	121
82 , down 5 places since 2023	The Thomas Aveling School Rochester · Academy converter	42.9	+0.16 (-0.04 to 0.36)	27%	70%	3.57	190
83= , down 1 place since 2023	Knole Academy Sevenoaks · Academy sponsor led	42.7	-0.49 (-0.67 to -0.31)	43%	63%	3.88	240
83= , down 24 places since 2023	Orion Eden Park Beckenham · Free schools	42.7	-0.56 (-0.74 to -0.37)	44%	62%	3.98	236
85= , down 19 places since 2023	Charles Darwin School Westerham · Academy converter	42.6	-0.34 (-0.53 to -0.15)	38%	59%	3.57	211
85= , up 6 places since 2023	Wrotham School Sevenoaks · Academy converter	42.6	-0.04 (-0.26 to 0.18)	37%	61%	3.72	167
87 , down 1 place since 2023	The Howard School Gillingham · Academy converter	42.5	+0.24 (0.07 to 0.42)	34%	60%	3.53	258
88 , down 6 places since 2023	St Anselm's Catholic School, Canterbury Canterbury · Academy converter	42.4	-0.02 (-0.24 to 0.19)	35%	63%	3.56	179
89 , down 21 places since 2023	Dartford Science & Technology College Dartford · Foundation school	42.1	-0.04 (-0.27 to 0.20)	37%	61%	3.43	150
90	Leigh Academy Mascalls Tonbridge · Academy converter	41.5	-0.17 (-0.36 to 0.02)	34%	57%	3.48	228
91= , down 10 places since 2023	Lift Bexleyheath Bexleyheath · Academy sponsor led	41.4	-0.42 (-0.64 to -0.21)	46%	68%	3.31	204
91= , down 18 places since 2023	Northfleet School for Girls Gravesend · Foundation school	41.4	-0.17 (-0.38 to 0.03)	36%	60%	3.64	206
93 , down 4 places since 2023	Bishop Justus CofE School Bromley · Academy converter	41.3	-0.68 (-0.87 to -0.49)	37%	63%	3.50	233
94 , up 30 places since 2023	Leigh Academy Strood Rochester · Academy sponsor led	41.2	-0.17 (-0.36 to 0.02)	29%	60%	3.38	221
95= , down 1 place since 2023	Leigh Academy Hundred of Hoo Rochester · Academy sponsor led	41.1	-0.07 (-0.24 to 0.11)	31%	54%	3.66	255
95= , down 4 places since 2023	Meopham School Gravesend · Academy sponsor led	41.1	-0.40 (-0.62 to -0.18)	41%	69%	3.81	160
97 , down 2 places since 2023	Orchards Academy Swanley · Academy converter	40.9	+0.03 (-0.25 to 0.30)	28%	59%	3.23	106
98 , up 8 places since 2023	Leigh UTC Dartford Dartford · University technical college	40.8	-0.35 (-0.62 to -0.09)	32%	59%	3.21	122
99 , down 13 places since 2023	The Malling School West Malling · Foundation school	40.5	-0.21 (-0.42 to 0.00)	33%	57%	3.63	180
100 , down 1 place since 2023	Towers School and Sixth Form Centre Ashford · Academy converter	40.2	-0.29 (-0.47 to -0.11)	35%	61%	3.67	251

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Under each rank: the change since the 2023 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2023 result.

Independent schools in Kent with published 2024 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Ashford School Ashford · Other independent school	44.1	0%	82
Babington House School Chislehurst · Other independent school	67.8	77%	34
Beechwood School Tunbridge Wells · Other independent school	25.6	0%	45
Benenden School Cranbrook · Other independent school	18.9	0%	82
Bethany School Cranbrook · Other independent school	21.7	0%	62
Bromley High School GDST Bromley · Other independent school	33.8	0%	84
Cobham Hall Other independent school	39.6	67%	27
Dover College Dover · Other independent school	18.6	0%	49
Earlscliffe (Sussex Summer Schools Ltd) Folkestone · Other independent school	12.0	0%	34
Farringtons School Chislehurst · Other independent school	24.8	0%	75
Gad's Hill School Rochester · Other independent school	56.9	81%	32
Kent College (Canterbury) Canterbury · Other independent school	38.4	1%	92
Kent College International Study Centre Canterbury · Other independent school	14.8	0%	23
Kent College Pembury Tunbridge Wells · Other independent school	45.2	0%	54
King's School, Rochester Rochester · Other independent school	17.6	0%	51
OneSchool Global UK - Maidstone Campus Maidstone · Other independent school	71.3	69%	13
Radnor House Sevenoaks Other independent school	47.5	79%	68
Rochester Independent College Rochester · Other independent school	19.9	0%	63
Sackville School Tonbridge · Other independent school	31.3	4%	47
Sevenoaks School Sevenoaks · Other independent school	18.6	0%	185
St Edmund's School Canterbury Canterbury · Other independent school	29.1	0%	99
Sutton Valence School Maidstone · Other independent school	24.0	0%	89
The King's School Canterbury Canterbury · Other independent school	17.5	0%	217
The Worthgate School Canterbury · Other independent school	0.9	0%	87
Tonbridge School Tonbridge · Other independent school	7.3	0%	156
Walthamstow Hall Sevenoaks · Other independent school	16.0	0%	69

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2024 was 45.9.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 measures how much progress pupils made from the end of primary school to their GCSEs against pupils nationally with the same starting point; it is the like-for-like measure, and the range in brackets is its confidence interval.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2024 archive of the table: each school's 2024 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2024 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Kent GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Kent on our composite score

Kent GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Kent ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Kent with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Kent

Kent GCSE results: common questions