Joshua Mangas

OA Tunbridge Wells

  • Alternative provision
  • Academy alternative provision sponsor led
  • Ages 11 to 16

URN 151544 · Kent · OLIVE ACADEMIES

In Kent

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

27 February 2024

Overall effectiveness
Inadequate

Ofsted category: Special measures.

Quality of education
Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes
Inadequate
Personal development
Inadequate
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Suspensions and permanent exclusions

Against Kent and England, alternative provision.

Suspensions per 100 pupils

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Kent
2,124.00
England
248.42

Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.

Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Kent
0.00
England
0.30

Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.

Teachers

Against Kent and England, alternative provision.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

3.4

Kent
7.5
England
7.3

3.9 lower than England.

Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.

Teacher sickness absence

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Kent
4.7 days
England
5.0 days

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll
0
Type
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
Phase
Alternative provision
Age range
11 to 16
Gender
Mixed
Trust
OLIVE ACADEMIES
Opened
1 June 2025
Setting
Urban: Further from a major town or city
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 10 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: St Johns Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9TX

Website: aptunbridgewells.oliveacademies.org.uk/

Telephone: 01892518461

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Sources and corrections

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