The Charles Dickens School

The Charles Dickens School was the highest achieving non-selective school in East Kent in 2023. This followed a period of rapid improvement following an Ofsted report of 2011 which found The Charles Dickens School generally overall Grade 2 'Good', in 2014 it was judged Grade 4 'inadequate' and placed in 'Special measures' with ongoing monitoring inspections. The school received external support by leaders from St George's Church of England Foundation School. This ceased at the end of July 2016. The executive headteacher and her colleagues from St George's were credited with have driven rapid improvement at The Charles Dickens School, but against expectations, the GCSE result were again…

The Charles Dickens School is a 1200 pupil 11-16 academy in Kent. Kent retains a selective system where pupils sit an eleven-plus test. Pupils who pass the test go to the Grammar school and Charles Dickens takes pupils who have not or who choose a more broad education with the option of vocational study in the Performing Arts, Arts, Engineering and Food Technology as an option. The school is in Broadstairs, on the Thanet peninsula 30 km from other centres of population. Thanet is surrounded on three sides by water. It offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. The current metric is success in the Progress 8 benchmark subjects.