Skinners' Kent Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 44 43.8 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 43.8 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 40% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 9.4% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: 0.00 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	38.4[5]	25%[5]
2023/24	44.8[3]	47.9%[3]	0.00[3]
2022/23	39.5[6]	33%[6]	-0.24[6]
2021/22	44.7[7]	38%[7]	-0.21[7]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C- 2016/17[8]
All results, 2020/21: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
All results, 2019/20: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade
2015/16	C-[10]
2014/15	D[11]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[12]
School sixth form: 43% 2022/23[12]
Sixth-form college: 0% 2022/23[12]
Further education college: 35% 2022/23[12]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[12]
Employment: 8% 2022/23[12]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	92%[13]	46%[13]	0%[13]	33%[13]	4%[13]	7%[13]
2020/21	92%[14]	47%[14]	1%[14]	31%[14]	2%[14]	10%[14]
2019/20	89%[15]	52%[15]	0%[15]	33%[15]	1%[15]	3%[15]
2018/19	91%[16]	46%[16]	0%[16]	33%[16]	2%[16]	9%[16]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 85% 2022/23[17]
Education: 27% 2022/23[17]
Apprenticeship: 3% 2022/23[17]
Employment: 55% 2022/23[17]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	80%[18]	37%[18]	3%[18]	41%[18]
2020/21	95%[19]	65%[19]	5%[19]	26%[19]
2019/20	83%[20]	62%[20]	3%[20]	17%[20]
2018/19	77%[21]	48%[21]	0%[21]	29%[21]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 47% 2021/22[22]
Top third of most selective universities: 8% 2021/22[22]
Russell Group universities: 7% 2019/20[23]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 2019/20[23]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2020/21	81%[24]	14%[24]
2019/20	70%[23]	19%[23]	7%[23]	0%[23]
2018/19	67%[25]	3%[25]	3%[25]	0%[25]
2017/18	14%[26]	0%[26]	0%[26]	0%[26]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 10 May 2023[27]
Type: S5 Inspection[27]
Report published: 26 Jun 2023[27]
Personal development: Good[27]
Quality of education: Good[27]
Overall effectiveness: Good[27]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[27]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[27]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Good[27]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[27]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
22 Feb 2022[28]	Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[28]	No overall grade[28]
Date not published[29]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[29]	Outstanding[29]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.6 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Applications (any preference): 618 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences: 166 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Places offered: 173 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences per place: 1.0 Entry Sept 2026[30]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	613[30]	168[30]	175[30]	3.5[30]	1.0[30]
Entry Sept 2024	647[30]	169[30]	177[30]	3.7[30]	1.0[30]
Entry Sept 2023	716[30]	208[30]	176[30]	4.1[30]	1.2[30]
Entry Sept 2022	676[30]	176[30]	177[30]	3.8[30]	1.0[30]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1150[1]
Trust: SKINNERS' ACADEMIES TRUST[1]
Local authority: Kent[1]
Website: https://www.skinnerskentacademy.org.uk/[1]
District: Tunbridge Wells [31]
Postcode: TN2 4PY[1]
URN: 135888[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1035 2024/25[32]
English as an additional language: 10.8% 2024/25[32]
SEN support: 24.4% 2024/25[32]
EHC plan: 3.1% 2024/25[32]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 31.1% 2024/25[32]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 85.9%[33]
Mixed: 7.5%[33]
Asian: 3.6%[33]
Black: 0.9%[33]
Any other ethnic group: 1%[33]
Unclassified: 1.1%[33]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

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