Barton Manor School
Secondary · Canterbury · CT1 1SU
Not yet graded
No graded inspection outcome is available for this school under either the current or the previous framework. This is common for recently opened or converted schools.
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
596 pupils · 57% of 1,050 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 41.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 24.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 6.9% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- https://www.bartonmanor.org/
- URN
- 149039
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place147 places offered · 147 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
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Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
85% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 8% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 May 2025: S5 Inspection
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.