Academy · Kent
The Skinners' School
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Boys
- Selective (11+)
- Sixth form
Term dates
Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Kent council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 232 families put this school as their first choice, and 160 places were offered. 105 of the families who put it first got a place (45%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 160 | 232 | 45% |
| September 2025 | 160 | 208 | 66% |
| September 2024 | 160 | 243 | 53% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
11+ entrance test
This school uses The Kent Test, a shared test used by 31 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 27 January 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Strong standard
- Achievement
- Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Sixth form
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Strong standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
Previous inspection, 16 November 2021. Overall: Good
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Academy
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 1149 (capacity 945)
- Gender
- Boys
- Academy trust
- SKINNERS' ACADEMIES TRUST
- Admissions
- Selective (entrance test)
- Phone
- 01892520732
- Address
- St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9PG
- Website
- skinners-school.co.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.