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Leigh Academy Milestone

Mixed · ages 2–19 · with sixth formKent, South East · Longfield DA3 8JZTrust: Leigh Academies TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
374of 255 places
Free school meals
36.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
24
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 4 June 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Milestone School (URN 119061, until 1 February 2012).

What the data says

Of the 29 pupils who finished Year 11 at Leigh Academy Milestone in 2023, 0% stayed on in Leigh Academy Milestone’s own sixth form (Kent average 56%), 3% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 0.2 against 46.1 across England and 46.7 in Kent, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Kent and England.

Leigh Academy Milestone
Kent
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureLeigh Academy MilestoneKentEngland
Pupils in the cohort2917,954607,348
Any sustained destination100%93%92%
Stayed in education100%88%86%
— school sixth form0%56%34%
— sixth form college0%13%
— further education college3%28%37%
— other education97%4%2%
Apprenticeship0%3%3%
Employment0%2%3%
No sustained destination0%5%6%
Destination unknown0%3%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

MeasureLeigh Academy MilestoneKentEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)0.246.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%47%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%65%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%47%41%
EBacc average point score0.004.184.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort46%25%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils0.432.234.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils0.051.550.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language17%12%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Other secondary schools in Kent

Astor Secondary School

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72% stayed in education · Attainment 8 27.9

Aylesford School

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73% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.6

Borden Grammar School

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94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 63.2

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.