United Kingdom / Regions / Dartford

Dartford

South East, England · population ~114k · 42 state-funded schools

Median full-time pay

£43,243/yrHigh

ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025

Median house price

£375,000Mid-range

ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025

Median monthly rent

£1,556/moMid-range

ONS PIPR · 2026-03

Council tax (Band D)

£2,375/yrExpensive

MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27

Crime per 1,000

80.7/1kMid

ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025

IMD score

18.8Low

MHCLG IoD · 2019

Schools Good+ (legacy)

93.1%Strong

Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot

Schools Outstanding

22.5%· 4 schools

Of 32 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot

State-funded schools in Dartford

Loading map…

42 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 (32 of 42 here), 95.4% 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.

Phase:

Showing 20 of 42 schools.

Links
Dartford Grammar School
Secondary1,543Outstanding06/12/2022OfstedWebsite
Leigh Academy Wilmington
Secondary1,381Outstanding04/05/2023OfstedWebsite
Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy
Secondary1,335Good·26/04/2023OfstedWebsite
Dartford Grammar School for Girls
Secondary1,248Outstanding·20/10/2021OfstedWebsite
Wilmington Grammar School for Boys
Secondary1,178Good·14/03/2023OfstedWebsite
Wilmington Grammar School for Girls
Secondary1,163Good16/11/2022OfstedWebsite
Stone Lodge School
Secondary1,052Good17/10/2023OfstedWebsite
Leigh Academy Longfield
Secondary980Good26/09/2023OfstedWebsite
Temple Hill Primary Academy
Primary889Not graded26/11/2024OfstedWebsite
Dartford Science & Technology College
Secondary855Good·16/03/2022OfstedWebsite
Leigh Academy Ebbsfleet
Secondary826Good04/12/2024OfstedWebsite
Oakfield Primary Academy
Primary721Good05/10/2021OfstedWebsite
Leigh UTC Dartford
Secondary689Good25/05/2022OfstedWebsite
Leigh Academy Dartford
Primary670Good·17/06/2025OfstedWebsite
Manor Community Primary School
Primary668Good·01/05/2024OfstedWebsite
Wentworth Primary School
Primary653Good07/06/2023OfstedWebsite
The Brent Primary School
Primary652Good09/07/2024OfstedWebsite
Fleetdown Primary Academy
Primary648Not graded25/03/2025OfstedWebsite
Stone St Mary's CofE Primary School
Primary640Not graded08/05/2025OfstedWebsite
West Hill Primary Academy
Primary520Good·01/10/2021OfstedWebsite

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.