The Charles Dickens School

General Info

Education Phase: Secondary, 16 plus
Ofsted rating: Good Mar 29 2023 Ofsted report
Gender: Mixed
Age range: 11 - 18 y.o.
Type: Academies
Funding: State-funded secondary
Admissions policy: Not applicable
Religious Character: None
Sixth Form: Has a sixth form
Local authority: Kent
Unique reference: 144015
Address: Broadstairs Road, CT10 2RL
Website: www.cds.kent.sch.uk

Pupils

Number of Pupils: 1118 (95% of total capacity)
Boys: 51.0%
Girls: 49.0%
First language not English: 8.2%
Free school meals (FSM): 37.6%
Persistent absence: 25.2%
Special education needs (SEN): 12.8%

Pupil ethnicities

White British 81.8%

Other White 6.5%

Mixed 5.7%

Unclassified 1.9%

Other 1%

African 0.8%

Gypsy/Roma 0.7%

Bangladeshi 0.4%

Other Asian 0.4%

Caribbean 0.3%

Chinese 0.2%

Irish 0.1%

Indian 0.1%

Pakistani 0.1%

Other Black 0.1%

Capacity %: Year 2022-2023 Persistent absence and other Pupils data: Year 2023-2024

Exam Results

GCSE Results

Progress 8 score

This school: 0.06
Local authority average, state-funded schools: -0.12
England average, state-funded schools: -0.03

Entering EBacc

School 8%

Local authority average 40%

England average 39%

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

School 30%

Local authority average 47%

England average 45%

Attainment 8 score

School 41.7

Local authority average 47

England average 46.3

EBacc average point score

School 3.23

Local authority average 4.12

England average 4.05

Year 2022-2023

Subjects

GCSE Subjects

Subject	Qualification	Number of entries
Music Studies (General)	Technical Award	32
Tourism	Technical Award	15
Dance: General	Technical Award	14
Health Studies	Technical Award	48
Small Business Management	Technical Award	69
Art & Design	GCSE	59
Art & Design (Textiles)	GCSE	11
Art & Design (Fine Art)	GCSE	2
Biology	GCSE	3
English Language	GCSE	203

Year 2022-2023

Admissions