United Kingdom / Regions / Medway
Medway
South East, England · population ~279k · 103 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 80 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Medway
103 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 (80 of 103 here), 94.7% 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 (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 103 schools.
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Leigh Academy Hundred of Hoo | Secondary | 1,847 | Good· | 20/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Rainham School for Girls | Secondary | 1,625 | Good· | 21/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Rainham Mark Grammar School | Secondary | 1,551 | Good | 24/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Howard School | Secondary | 1,534 | Good· | 24/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School | Secondary | 1,528 | Outstanding | 21/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Brompton Academy | Secondary | 1,382 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Leigh Academy Strood | Secondary | 1,305 | Good· | 02/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
The Victory Academy | Secondary | 1,221 | Good | 02/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Thomas Aveling School | Secondary | 1,212 | Good· | 14/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Rochester Grammar School | Secondary | 1,171 | Good | 17/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School | Secondary | 1,105 | Not graded | 29/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Holcombe Grammar School | Secondary | 1,036 | Good· | 13/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Robert Napier School | Secondary | 1,011 | Not graded | 24/09/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Fort Pitt Grammar School | Secondary | 987 | Outstanding | 04/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Chatham Grammar | Secondary | 950 | Good· | 18/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Greenacre School | Secondary | 861 | Inadequate | 21/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Walderslade School | Secondary | 806 | Inadequate | 22/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Leigh Academy Rainham | Secondary | 793 | Good | 27/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Academy of Woodlands | Primary | 792 | Good· | 25/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Fairview Community Primary School | Primary | 684 | Not graded | 30/10/2024 | 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.