Leigh Academy Longfield, Longfield

In 2026, pupils at Leigh Academy Longfield averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 48.1 in Kent and 47 across England.

32% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 49% in Kent and 47% in England.

That is up from 40.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.38: pupils made 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 35.7, against 44.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 136 families put Leigh Academy Longfield as their first choice and 435 named it as one of their preferences, for 173 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Leigh Academy Longfield are Northfleet School for Girls (2.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 39.8); Meopham School (3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 38.4); Northfleet Technology College (3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 35.7); and Alkerden Church of England Academy (3 miles).

Leigh Academy Longfield's 2026 results were higher than all 3 of them.

Leigh Academy Longfield is one of 33 schools run by Leigh Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.4 in 2024/25.

Of the 154 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 84% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 46% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 6% into work.

Of the 77 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 46% went on to university or other higher education, 4% to apprenticeships and 33% into work. 4% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

2.5% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (83%) and Black (5%).

In 2026, 101 pupils (10.2%) received SEN support and 70 (7.1%) 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 autism.

Leigh Academy Longfield has a resourced provision for autism: 40 places, 45 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Longfield Rail Station, about 440 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Marys Way (adjacent), 100 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 41 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Kent (101).

In 2024/25, Leigh Academy Longfield issued 122 suspensions, 12.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Leigh Academy Longfield are Langafel Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (0.5 miles); Our Lady of Hartley Catholic Primary School, Hartley, Longfield (0.8 miles); Leigh Academy Hartley (1 mile); and Sedley's Church of England Primary School (1.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.