Overall Oxbridge
#849
6 ranked schools · +65 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
67
Offers
13
Offer rate19.4%
-3.0 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
The river shaped the town's early fortunes as the commercial centre of the Garden of England, with human settlement reaching back before the Stone Age. Penenden Heath and Barming extend the western residential belt.
Where the River Medway curves through the North Downs, Maidstone stands as the county town of Kent, around 32 miles east-south-east of London. Today around 100,000 people live across the borough, its economy long since shifted from heavy industry towards light industry and services. Bearsted is widely regarded as one of Maidstone's most school-competitive postcodes for primary places, while Sutton Valence draws families competing for grammar and selective school entry across the town's south-eastern edge. Maidstone East station, on the Chatham Main Line, links the town to London Victoria in around an hour.
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Area Performance
Across 72 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.85/10, +0.41 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Maidstone schools
Maidstone vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Maidstone schools
top 48% of 14,978
top 48% of 14,978
top 49% of 3,862
top 49% of 3,862
top 53% of 2,555
top 53% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
6 ranked schools · +65 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
67
Offers
13
Oxford
4 ranked schools · -29 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
31
Offers
3
Cambridge
6 ranked schools · -95 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
36
Offers
10
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Maidstone
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Maidstone
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