Academy converter · Primary
Herne Bay · CT6 8NB · Kent
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 136465
Herne Bay High School
Academy converter · Herne Bay · CT6 7NS
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,507
Local authority
Kent
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Herne Bay, Kent, 1,507 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 33.3%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 136465
Location
- Address
- Bullockstone Road
- Postcode
- CT6 7NS
- Town
- Herne Bay
- County
- Kent
- Local authority
- Kent
- District
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,507
- Boys / girls
- 805 / 702
- School capacity
- 1,494
- Capacity fill
- 1,507 / 1,494 (101%)
- Free school meals
- 33.3%
- FSM pupils
- 431
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: HERNE BAY HIGH SCHOOL
- Academy trust
- HERNE BAY HIGH SCHOOL
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Jon Boyes
- Telephone
- 01227361221
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2022-05-24
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 38.1
- Progress 8
- -1.0
- English & maths grade 5+
- 26%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 55%
- EBacc entry
- 4%
- EBacc APS
- 3.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
11.4%
Persistent absence
34.9%
Unauthorised
4.0%
- Authorised absence
- 7.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 4.4%
- Enrolments in measure
- 1,371
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 9.7% · Persistent 31.2%
- 2021/22
- Overall 9.8% · Persistent 32.5%