United Kingdom / Regions / Folkestone and Hythe
Folkestone and Hythe
South East, England · population ~113k · 44 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 Folkestone and Hythe
44 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 44 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. A further 1 school (2.3% 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 44 schools.
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Brockhill Park Performing Arts College | Secondary | 1,358 | Good | 12/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
The Folkestone School for Girls | Secondary | 1,159 | Good | 23/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Turner Free School | Secondary | 1,020 | Good | 06/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Marsh Academy | Secondary | 1,017 | Good | 15/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Harvey Grammar School | Secondary | 1,015 | Outstanding· | 14/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Folkestone Academy | Secondary | 915 | Good | 20/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Folkestone Primary | Primary | 436 | Good | 27/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Beacon Folkestone | Special | 431 | Outstanding· | 06/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandgate Primary School | Primary | 419 | Good | 15/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 416 | Good· | 18/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Castle Hill Community Primary School | Primary | 414 | Good | 06/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone | Primary | 414 | Good | 30/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Nicholas Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 411 | Not graded | 09/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Cheriton Primary School | Primary | 404 | Good· | 04/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Hawkinge Primary School | Primary | 389 | Not graded | 21/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Churchill School | Primary | 341 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
Hythe Bay CofE Primary School | Primary | 263 | Good· | 25/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
All Soul's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 259 | Good | 12/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lydd Primary School | Primary | 254 | Good· | 13/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Greatstone Primary School | Primary | 244 | Good | 24/05/2022 | 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.