United Kingdom / Regions / Maidstone
Maidstone
South East, England · population ~173k · 65 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 51 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Maidstone
65 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 (51 of 65 here), 96.9% 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 65 schools.
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Invicta Grammar School | Secondary | 1,645 | Outstanding | 16/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Valley Park School | Secondary | 1,595 | Not graded | 28/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Maplesden Noakes School | Secondary | 1,421 | Good | 01/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Maidstone Grammar School | Secondary | 1,415 | Not graded | 09/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Cornwallis Academy | Secondary | 1,328 | Good· | 12/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls | Secondary | 1,274 | Outstanding | 07/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Simon Stock Catholic School | Secondary | 1,151 | Good· | 13/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Oakwood Park Grammar School | Secondary | 1,088 | Good· | 02/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
School of Science and Technology Maidstone | Secondary | 953 | Outstanding | 24/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Five Acre Wood School | Special | 854 | Outstanding | 02/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Lenham School | Secondary | 826 | Good | 05/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
New Line Learning Academy | Secondary | 819 | Not graded | 13/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Augustine Academy | Secondary | 736 | Requires Improvement | 12/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Loose Primary School | Primary | 657 | Good | 27/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Madginford Primary School | Primary | 627 | Good· | 20/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Barming Primary School | Primary | 490 | Not graded | 24/09/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
West Borough Primary School | Primary | 475 | Good· | 19/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Allington Primary School | Primary | 468 | Outstanding | 12/07/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Coxheath Primary School | Primary | 459 | Good | 07/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
South Borough Primary School | Primary | 447 | Good· | 26/04/2023 | 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.