United Kingdom / Regions / Ashford
Ashford
South East, England · population ~131k · 54 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 39 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Ashford
54 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (39 of 54 here), 100% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 54 schools.
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Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | 1,863 | Good | 25/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The John Wallis Church of England Academy | Secondary | 1,731 | Good | 31/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Towers School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | 1,559 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Highworth Grammar School | Secondary | 1,543 | Not graded | 14/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Norton Knatchbull School | Secondary | 1,289 | Good | 13/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The North School | Secondary | 1,270 | Not graded | 13/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Wye School | Secondary | 575 | Good· | 22/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Furley Park Primary Academy | Primary | 535 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Willesborough Junior School | Primary | 480 | Good· | 22/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Beaver Green Primary School | Primary | 474 | Good· | 14/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ashford Oaks Community Primary School | Primary | 443 | Good | 28/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The John Wesley Church of England Methodist Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | 434 | Good· | 11/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Lady Joanna Thornhill Endowed Primary School | Primary | 424 | Not graded | 11/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School | Primary | 423 | Good· | 24/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Great Chart Primary School | Primary | 422 | Outstanding | 06/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Repton Manor Primary School | Primary | 421 | Good | 28/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ashford, St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 417 | Not graded | 24/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Godinton Primary School | Primary | 416 | Good· | 07/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
East Stour Primary School | Primary | 410 | Not graded | 08/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Finberry Primary School | Primary | 395 | Good· | 24/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.