The Maplesden Noakes School is a

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secondary school and

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with academy status, located in

Maidstone Maidstone is the largest town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies 32 miles (51 km) east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, linking it wi ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, England. Since September 2005, the school has had a planned admission number of 180. The school's intake is regularly oversubscribed and it has exactly 1082 students on roll of which 207 are currently in the sixth form (as of February 2014). The school is situated in a residential area not far from the town's centre. It occupies a site and shares its grounds with Maidstone Grammar School for Girls.

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It is an average-sized school in an area where a significant proportion of students go to local

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s. It is a specialist business and enterprise college. The proportion of disabled students and those with

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supported at school action is well below the national average. The proportion of students supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is below average. The most common needs relate to behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. Less than one in 10 students is from minority ethnic groups, which is well below the national average. The proportion of students for whom the school receives the pupil premium (additional government funding for specific groups, including those known to be eligible for free school meals, looked after children and children from service families) is average. There are no service family children in the school. A relatively high proportion of

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students is eligible for catch-up funding which is for students who did not achieve the expected Level 4 in reading or mathematics at the end of Key Stage 2.The last full inspection. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th
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Whatman Park Whatman Park, known locally as Millennium Park, is a park in Maidstone, Kent. It lies along the River Medway, around 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the town centre, and is named after the Whatman papermaking factory nearby, in operation from 174 ...

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