Goodwin Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 31 30.7 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL D D 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 30.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 10.4% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 0% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.80 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	30.5[6]	17.5%[6]
2023/24	35[4]	20.9%[4]	-0.80[4]
2022/23	33.9[7]	19%[7]	-0.85[7]
2021/22	39.7[8]	27%[8]	-0.59[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: D 2024/25[3]
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
2023/24	D-[10]
2022/23	D-[11]
2018/19	D[12]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 87% 2022/23[13]
School sixth form: 22% 2022/23[13]
Sixth-form college: 0% 2022/23[13]
Further education college: 55% 2022/23[13]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[13]
Employment: 3% 2022/23[13]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	83%[14]	20%[14]	0%[14]	53%[14]	6%[14]	3%[14]
2020/21	89%[15]	35%[15]	0%[15]	45%[15]	2%[15]	4%[15]
2019/20	88%[16]	34%[16]	0%[16]	42%[16]	5%[16]	5%[16]
2018/19	91%[17]	30%[17]	0%[17]	49%[17]	4%[17]	3%[17]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 77% 2022/23[18]
UK higher education: 3% 2022/23[18]
Education: 17% 2022/23[18]
Apprenticeship: 3% 2022/23[18]
Employment: 57% 2022/23[18]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	64%[19]	7%[19]	18%[19]	7%[19]	39%[19]
2020/21	63%[20]	14%[20]	20%[20]	6%[20]	37%[20]
2019/20	57%[21]	27%[21]	33%[21]	8%[21]	16%[21]
2018/19	81%[22]	27%[22]	46%[22]	3%[22]	31%[22]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 11% 2021/22[23]
Top third of most selective universities: 0% 2021/22[23]
Russell Group universities: 0% 2019/20[24]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 2019/20[24]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2020/21	29%[25]	0%[25]
2019/20	34%[24]	0%[24]	0%[24]	0%[24]
2018/19	34%[26]	2%[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: 21 Jan 2025[27]
Type: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[27]
Report published: 10 Mar 2025[27]
Personal development: Good[27]
Quality of education: 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
18 Oct 2022[28]	Academy First Section 5[28]	Requires improvement[28]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 1.8 Entry Sept 2026[29]
Applications (any preference): 261 Entry Sept 2026[29]
First preferences: 124 Entry Sept 2026[29]
Places offered: 145 Entry Sept 2026[29]
First preferences per place: 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[29]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	210[29]	90[29]	114[29]	1.8[29]	0.8[29]
Entry Sept 2024	250[29]	99[29]	109[29]	2.3[29]	0.9[29]
Entry Sept 2023	301[29]	132[29]	164[29]	1.8[29]	0.8[29]
Entry Sept 2022	293[29]	169[29]	175[29]	1.7[29]	1.0[29]

Admissions

Places (published admission number), 11+ entry: 150 Entry Sept 2027[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: THE THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST[1]
Local authority: Kent[1]
Website: https://www.goodwinacademy.org.uk/[1]
District: Dover [31]
Postcode: CT14 9BD[1]
URN: 146624[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 830 2024/25[32]
English as an additional language: 1.9% 2024/25[32]
SEN support: 13.6% 2024/25[32]
EHC plan: 5.4% 2024/25[32]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 47.8% 2024/25[32]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 94.4%[33]
Mixed: 1.5%[33]
Asian: 0.8%[33]
Black: 1.2%[33]
Any other ethnic group: 0.1%[33]
Unclassified: 2.1%[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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Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer exam series was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and alternative processes were set up to award grades.
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If the number of applications for admission to the Academy is greater than the Published Admissions Number (PAN) of 150, places will be allocated in the following priority order: (p. 2)
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