The School Record

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

Sandwich Technology School

URN 136317 · Secondary · Academy converter · Kent

Deal Road, Sandwich, CT13 0FA

Ofsted category of concern: Special measures

At its inspection on 12 May 2026 (Ofsted report card (current framework)), this school was placed in the category special measures.

Ofsted judged the school to be failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education, and not to have the capacity to make the necessary improvements without help.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

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, 90 families named Sandwich Technology School as their first preference, and the school made 211 offers.

That is 0.43 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 2% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 2% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.66 in 2021–2022 and 0.56 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 90 321 211 0.43
2024 174 516 253 0.69
2023 200 583 254 0.79
2022 198 519 265 0.75
2021 155 774 269 0.58
2020 210 626 256 0.82
2019 199 629 258 0.77
2018 203 654 260 0.78
2017 237 617 264 0.90
2016 284 771 255 1.11
2015 273 715 274 1.00
2014 216 585 274 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 2024 to 202620242026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 12 May 2026

Category of concern: Special measures

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Urgent improvement

Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Sixth form / post-16: Needs attention

Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 15 May 2024

Category of concern: Special measures

Overall effectiveness: Inadequate

Quality of education: Inadequate

Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate

Personal development: Inadequate

Leadership and management: Inadequate

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 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 35.30 - 43.6% 8.5%
2023/24 34.40 -0.85
likely between -1.04 and -0.67		 41.3% 3.1%
2022/23 37.50 -0.70
likely between -0.88 and -0.52		 49.4% 4.7%

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 87.4 79.8 1.0 6.6 8.7%
2023/24 80.6 67.0 6.2 7.4 16.9%
2022/23 82.6 65.2 7.8 9.6 21.1%
2021/22 88.8 67.9 10.1 10.8 23.5%
2020/21 88.7 80.1 2.6 6.0 9.7%
2019/20 89.4 77.3 5.0 7.1 13.5%

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 Sandwich Technology School.

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.