The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Northfleet School for Girls

URN 118788 · Secondary · Foundation school · Kent

Hall Road, Gravesend, DA11 8AQ

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 181 families named Northfleet School for Girls as their first preference, and the school made 218 offers.

That is 0.83 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 30% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 30% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.65 in 2021–2022 and 0.89 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 181 556 218 0.83
2024 206 599 216 0.95
2023 170 499 210 0.81
2022 153 397 202 0.76
2021 113 433 207 0.55
2020 154 411 208 0.74
2019 126 381 207 0.61
2018 141 391 201 0.70
2017 100 389 143 0.70
2016 122 452 198 0.62
2015 92 397 139 0.66
2014 118 393 149 0.79

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2022 to 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 21 April 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Sixth form / post-16: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 2 March 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 43.00 - 64.2% 27.5%
2023/24 41.40 -0.17
likely between -0.38 and 0.03
60.2% 18.9%
2022/23 44.30 0.15
likely between -0.06 and 0.36
60.5% 10.0%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 82.0 76.8 3.0 2.2 6.3%
2023/24 77.1 64.9 6.2 6.0 15.8%
2022/23 73.3 63.3 6.0 4.0 13.6%
2021/22 67.9 67.1 0.0 0.8 1.2%
2020/21 65.3 62.2 0.0 3.1 4.7%
2019/20 61.2 54.2 0.8 6.2 11.4%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Northfleet School for Girls.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.