Chilmington Green School
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Chilmington Green School is a free school in Great Chart for boys and girls aged 11 to 19. It has 449 pupils and room for 1,140. About 32 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit more than at most schools. We give it 77 out of 100. That puts it above schools like it, ahead of 96% of the 50 schools most like it. Ofsted visited in May 2026 and gave it a report card, which is below.
Chilmington Green Road, Great Chart, TN23 3DL01233 438800chilmingtongreenschool.org.ukMr Jonathan Rutland headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted visited on 6 May 2026. Instead of one overall word, it now gives a grade for each part of school life. Read the full report on Ofsted's website.
Ofsted says these new grades can't be lined up against the old one-word grades.
Results
GCSE results, summer 2025
0 pupils sat their GCSEs. Here is how they did against every state secondary in England.
The government hasn't published this school's headline results. Fewer than eleven pupils sat the exams, so the figures could identify individual children.
Getting a place
Open to all. There is no entrance test.
870 places were empty (76% of the total), so almost everyone who applies gets in.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Kent council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
What parents say
From Ofsted's Parent View survey: 63 parents answered in the year to 6 April 2026. Parents choose whether to fill it in, and many only do so when an inspection is coming, so don't read too much into small differences. The England figures are the average for secondary schools with enough answers to publish.
Who goes here
Who a school teaches matters. That is why our score compares it with schools that take in a similar mix of children, not with every school in the country.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: emotional and mental health (31), Specific learning difficulty (26), Autistic spectrum disorder (18), language and communications needs (16), Moderate learning difficulty (15), SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need (8).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 449 | 274 | 122 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 32% | 27% | 30% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 9% | 10% | 10% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 22% | 21% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 6% | 8% |
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 95.6% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 91.4%.
Attendance year by year
| Measure | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions missedOverall absence | 4.4% | 5.1% | 8.6% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 3.0% | 3.7% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 1.5% | 1.3% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 10.4% | 11.6% | 23.9% |
| SuspensionsSuspension rate | 15.7 | 33.6 | – |
| Permanent exclusionsPermanent exclusions | 0 | 0 | – |
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the academy accounts return, year to August 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other secondary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest secondary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The John Wallis Church of England Academy | Academy | 1.7 miles | 1,650 | Good 2024 | 10 | Compare |
| Highworth Grammar School | Academy (grammar) | 2.6 miles | 1,553 | No overall grade 2025 | 97 | Compare |
| The North School | Academy | 3.1 miles | 1,237 | Not inspected | 31 | Compare |
| The Norton Knatchbull School | Academy (grammar) | 3.4 miles | 1,348 | Good 2023 | 90 | Compare |
| Towers School and Sixth Form Centre | Academy | 4.2 miles | 1,538 | No overall grade 2024 | 23 | Compare |
Compared with schools like it
Our score compares Chilmington Green School with the 47 schools in England whose pupils are most like its own. We match on family income, how many children are learning English, special needs, the neighbourhood, the size of the school and how it admits pupils. Those 47 schools are dotted all over the country, so we don't list them. What matters is where this school sits among them.
No school with a similar mix of pupils within 25 km scores clearly higher.
How the score was worked out
The score is out of 100. A 77 means that once everything below is added up, this school comes out ahead of 77% of secondary schools in England. Results bounce around from year to year, especially in small schools, so we also show a likely range: 61 to 86. Every part is judged against schools with a similar mix of pupils. For small schools we pull each part towards the group average, so one unusual year can't swing the score too far.
| What we looked at | How much it counts | Against schools like it | Effect on the score | Based on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Results over three years | 0% | no data | – | |
| Ofsted inspection | 20% | above | +0.23 | Ofsted report card, 0.4 years old |
| Progress pupils make | 0% | no data | – | |
| Direction of travel over five years | 0% | no data | – | |
| Attendance and behaviour | 10% | well above | +0.31 | 2024/25; 279 pupils |
| Results, allowing for the mix of pupils | 0% | no data | – | |
| What pupils do next | 0% | no data | – | |
| What parents say | 5% | below | -0.08 | Ofsted's Parent View survey, allowing for how many parents replied; 63 responses |
Worked out on 13 September 2026 (method v1). Read how the score works, including every weight and the checks we run. Think a number is wrong? Tell us.
Questions parents ask
Is Chilmington Green School a good school?
Yes, going by the figures. Chilmington Green School scores 77 out of 100. That is above schools that take in a similar mix of pupils, and ahead of 96% of the 50 schools most like it in England. The score could fairly be anywhere from 61 to 86, so a few points either way between schools doesn't mean much.
What is Chilmington Green School's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted no longer gives schools one overall grade. When it visited on 6 May 2026 it rated teaching as strong, achievement as as expected, behaviour and attendance as strong, leadership as strong.
How many pupils does Chilmington Green School have?
449 pupils aged 11 to 19 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 1,140 places, so it is 39% full.
Is Chilmington Green School oversubscribed?
Probably not. 870 places were empty in 2024/25 (76% of the total), so most families who apply get a place.
What is attendance like at Chilmington Green School?
Pupils were in school 95.6% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 91.4%. 10% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
What do parents say about Chilmington Green School?
68% of the 63 parents who answered Ofsted's Parent View survey would recommend it to other parents, and 60% say their child is happy there. Across England, 77% of parents would recommend their child's school.
How big are the classes at Chilmington Green School?
The average class had 24.9 pupils in January 2026. Across England it was 22.8. 22% of classes had more than 30 pupils.
Does Chilmington Green School have a sixth form?
No. Pupils leave after Year 11 for a sixth form elsewhere, a college or an apprenticeship.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Chilmington Green Road, Great Chart, TN23 3DL
- Telephone
- 01233 438800
- Website
- chilmingtongreenschool.org.uk
- Headteacher
- Mr Jonathan Rutland
- Type of school
- Free school (Free schools, free schools)
- Phase
- Secondary school, ages 11-19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Multi-academy trust
- United Learning Trust (98 schools)
- Local authority
- Kent
- Ward
- Weald Central
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent
- Setting
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 September 2023 (academy free school)
- URN
- 149840 · LAESTAB 8864032 · UKPRN 10093045
Recent changes
- New KS4 results for 2024/25
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- GCSE results: DfE key stage 4 performance tables, 2024/25 final.
- Attendance: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25 full year.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Class sizes: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, academy accounts return 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.