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The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells

Selective

National rank

105=

Rank last year

73.7^%

A-level

60.5^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Edward Wesson

Attendance 96.5%

Gender of entry Boys

Send pupils* 3.6% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 1,124

Pupils on free school meals 5.8%

Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Our methodology

Results

Grade

25.1

28.6

A*/A

45.1

A*-B

73.7

Grade

9/8

39.7

20.8

9/8/7

60.5

What the school inspection says

“[Pupils] talk passionately about what the school offers them … As pupils travel through the school, teachers challenge them more and more. Staff’s expectations of what pupils can achieve are especially ambitious for older pupils. Leaders make sure that the school is not just about academic achievement. Pupils enthusiastically take part in the many and diverse range of activities on offer. Older pupils help staff to run clubs and societies. Prefects make a strong contribution to school life … Many parents commented on how much their children have gained from their education … Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (Send) receive thoughtful and individualised support … Sport is an important part of the offer but there are plenty of other interests pupils can pursue.”

Inspection

2021

In detail *

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*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

The Worshipful Company of Skinners (an ancient London livery company) established the school in 1887. The original hall is still at the heart of the site.
The most recent addition is the Mitchell Building in 2020, which contains the sixth form common room, classrooms and a library.
Skinners’ boys are known as “leopards” after the animals on the school badge — although the livery company crest depicts a lynx and a marten.
The houses — Atwell, Hunt, Knott, Nicholson and Sebastian — are named for notable figures in the school's history, such as Rev Frederick Knott, its first headmaster.
Alumni include the television presenter Nick Knowles and the cricketer Bob Woolmer.

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enquiries@skinners-school.org.uk

Telephone

01892 520 732

Website

skinners-school.co.uk

Address

St John’s Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9PG

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