United Kingdom / Regions / Canterbury
Canterbury
South East, England · population ~167k · 47 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 34 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Canterbury
47 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 (34 of 47 here), 88.8% 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. A further 1 school (2.1% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
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 47 schools.
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The Canterbury Academy | Secondary | 1,984 | Requires Improvement | 21/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Herne Bay High School | Secondary | 1,545 | Good | 24/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School | Secondary | 1,256 | Good· | 27/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys | Secondary | 1,211 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Whitstable School | Secondary | 1,109 | Good | 12/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Anselm's Catholic School, Canterbury | Secondary | 1,107 | Good | 12/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Barton Court Grammar School | Secondary | 1,005 | Good | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Archbishop's School | Secondary | 791 | Good | 22/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hampton Primary School | Primary | 677 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Orion Spires | Secondary | 667 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Joy Lane Primary Foundation School | Primary | 619 | Good· | 24/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Swalecliffe Community Primary School | Primary | 500 | Good· | 14/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Reculver Church of England Primary School | Primary | 455 | Not graded | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Barton Manor School | Secondary | 449 | Not graded | 13/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Johns Church of England Primary School | Primary | 436 | Good | 23/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Wincheap Foundation Primary School | Primary | 429 | Good· | 09/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Blean Primary School | Primary | 427 | Outstanding· | 09/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bridge and Patrixbourne Church of England Primary School | Primary | 424 | Good· | 04/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Canterbury Primary School | Primary | 416 | Good· | 08/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Sturry Church of England Primary School | Primary | 413 | Not graded | 04/02/2025 | 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.