Northfleet School for Girls, Gravesend

Ofsted's report card from its 21 April 2026 inspection grades Northfleet School for Girls on 7 areas: 3 strong standard and 4 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Attendance is a very high priority in this school."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Inclusive approaches sit at the heart of leaders' vision and are woven into the practices of staff across the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The wider development of pupils is a significant priority of leaders' work, and one that contributes significantly to the school's strengths."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils are supported to develop the appropriate knowledge and skills across subjects, including foundational knowledge, so that they can access the curriculum effectively."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "An ambitious curriculum has been planned to support pupils to develop their knowledge and skills across a broad range of subjects."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Staff and leaders alike are united in their vision to ensure that every pupil reaches their potential and develops increasingly positive aspirations for their futures."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "Students in the sixth form access a broad and varied curriculum which is well designed to meet the needs of the students it serves."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should embed their work to ensure that all pupils, but especially the most able, are appropriately stretched and challenged in lessons to support them in achieving well"; "Leaders need to continue to develop the consistency of quality of teaching in the sixth form, embedding the improvements to the curriculum areas where achievement has not been as effective, so that all students are supported to achieve their potential".

In 2026, pupils at Northfleet School for Girls averaged an Attainment 8 score of 39.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 48.1 in Kent and 47 across England.

35% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 49% in Kent and 47% in England.

That is down from 43 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.17: 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 34.3, against 43.8 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.5 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 25 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Spanish.

For September 2026 entry, 202 families put Northfleet School for Girls as their first choice and 562 named it as one of their preferences, for 219 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 29 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Northfleet School for Girls are Northfleet Technology College (0.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 35.7); Saint George's Church of England School (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42.1); Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend (1 mile, Outstanding, selective, Attainment 8 62.2); and Leigh Academy Ebbsfleet (1.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.2).

Northfleet School for Girls's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

Northfleet School for Girls is one of 6 schools run by Northfleet Schools Co-Operative Trust, an academy trust.

Of the 206 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 85% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 28% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

Of the 113 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 49% went on to university or other higher education, 5% to apprenticeships and 27% into work. 5% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

35.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 215 pupils (16.4%) received SEN support and 16 (1.2%) 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.

Northfleet School for Girls had 96 teachers in 2026, one for every 14 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical secondary school, at about one for every 17.

The nearest railway station is Ebbsfleet International Rail Station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Northfleet School for Girls (opposite), 70 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 220 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other theft. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Kent (101), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Northfleet School for Girls issued 284 suspensions, 21.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Northfleet School for Girls are Painters Ash Primary School (0.3 miles), Springhead Park Primary School (0.6 miles), Shears Green Junior School (0.6 miles) and Shears Green Infant School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.