Brockhill Park Performing Arts College, Hythe

Ofsted's report card from its 20 January 2026 inspection grades Brockhill Park Performing Arts College on 7 areas: 1 strong standard and 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have created a cohesive personal development programme that runs through the curriculum."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Published outcomes in national examinations do not reflect pupils' wider achievement across the curriculum."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have taken effective action to improve pupils' attendance over time."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have a detailed knowledge of the quality of the school's broad curriculum offer."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed an inclusive environment to support pupils, who may face barriers to their learning, to thrive."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have a detailed understanding of the school's context and are deeply passionate about providing a high-quality education for its pupils."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "Leaders have a secure understanding of the quality of provision at post-16."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• The school should continue its work to ensure consistency in teaching approaches, including adaptations for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, to ensure that all pupils can achieve well overall, including in national examinations. • Leaders should continue to improve checks on learning in lessons so that teachers know what pupils have learned before moving on to new or more detailed learning, including in the sixth form".

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From the headteacher's welcome: "Brockhill Park Performing Arts College is an 11-18 academy with specialisms in both Performing Arts and Rural Studies. Brockhill is an exceptional school and place set in a beautiful 24 hectare site in an area of outstanding natural beauty overlooking the English Channel and close to the village of Saltwood near Hythe in Kent."

In 2026, pupils at Brockhill Park Performing Arts College averaged an Attainment 8 score of 36.1, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 48.1 in Kent and 47 across England.

17% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 49% in Kent and 47% in England.

That is down from 37.4 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -1: pupils made well below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 32.2, against 37.5 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 5.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 28 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and French.

For September 2026 entry, 213 families put Brockhill Park Performing Arts College as their first choice and 688 named it as one of their preferences, for 230 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 20 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Brockhill Park Performing Arts College are Turner Free School (3.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 39.4); The Folkestone School for Girls (3.7 miles, Good, selective, Attainment 8 62.3); The Harvey Grammar School (4 miles, Outstanding, selective, Attainment 8 65.2); and Folkestone Academy (4.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 38).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Brockhill Park Performing Arts College.

165 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Brockhill Park Performing Arts College (as of April 2026): 64% would recommend the school, 63% say their child is happy there and 44% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (71%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (44%).

Of the 222 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 88% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 39% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

Of the 79 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 38% went on to university or other higher education, 6% to apprenticeships and 38% into work.

5.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (85%) and Mixed (5%).

In 2026, 193 pupils (14.7%) received SEN support and 33 (2.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

Brockhill Park Performing Arts College had 110 teachers in 2026, one for every 12 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical secondary school, at about one for every 17.

The nearest railway station is Sandling Rail Station, about 970 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Brockhill Park School (outside), 110 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 36 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other theft. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Kent (101).

In 2024/25, Brockhill Park Performing Arts College issued 252 suspensions, 18.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Brockhill Park Performing Arts College are St Augustine's Catholic Primary School (0.4 miles), Saltwood CofE Primary School (0.6 miles), Hythe Bay CofE Primary School (1.1 miles) and Palmarsh Primary School (1.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.