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Valence School

Special schoolAges 4–19FoundationSixth form

near Brasted Chart, TN16 1QN · Kent local authority

Brasted Chart’s Schools page →

How full
129 pupils
98% of its 131 places
Free school meals
32%
32 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Valence School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Brasted Chart, the nearest town
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TN16 1) sold for a median £477,500; Brasted Chart’s is £0

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 11 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Valence beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 5.5

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Kent avg 48.6

20304050607080England avg 47.3Valence 5.5

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Kent avg 49%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Valence 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
5.4
2024/25
3.7
2025/26
5.5

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.72: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Kent 68% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

132 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
35.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 40%Boys 60%
Its letter

No letter for Valence School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, December 2019. Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, June 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Valence School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in TN16 1, the school’s postcode sector

Brasted Chart property prices →
£477,500
median sale, 178 sales in 36 months

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K£500K£550K2010201520202025TN16 1
TN16 1Brasted Chart

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£958K
Semi-detached
£538K
Terraced
£398K
Flat
£298K
TN16 1Brasted Chart

HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

2 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−C+Valence School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

near Brasted Chart, TN16 1QN

Valence School: common questions

What is Valence School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).

How much do houses cost near Valence School?

Homes in its postcode sector, TN16 1, sold for a median £477,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (178 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Brasted Chart’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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