United Kingdom / Regions / Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells
South East, England · population ~119k · 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 33 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Tunbridge Wells
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 (33 of 44 here), 96.1% 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 44 schools.
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Bennett Memorial Diocesan School | Secondary | 1,892 | Outstanding | 13/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys | Secondary | 1,799 | Good· | 25/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Leigh Academy Mascalls | Secondary | 1,238 | Good· | 17/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
St Gregory's Catholic School | Secondary | 1,177 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Skinners' School | Secondary | 1,141 | Good | 16/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School | Secondary | 1,095 | Outstanding | 19/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Skinners' Kent Academy | Secondary | 1,035 | Good | 10/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Cranbrook School | Secondary | 918 | Good | 22/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | 632 | Good | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 631 | Good· | 22/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Southborough CofE Primary School | Primary | 621 | Good· | 27/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Leigh Academy Paddock Wood | Primary | 616 | Good | 08/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Claremont Primary School | Primary | 435 | Good | 11/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Langton Green Primary School | Primary | 425 | Good | 20/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Pembury School | Primary | 408 | Not graded | 23/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Broomhill Bank School | Special | 392 | Good· | 11/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Mark's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 359 | Good· | 29/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Matthew's High Brooms Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | 333 | Requires Improvement | 26/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 264 | Good· | 15/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Oakley School | Special | 224 | Not graded | 23/10/2024 | 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.