Education

Ashford has a range of excellent and expanding education facilities well able to meet the community’s growing needs and which will provide a source of skilled workers for the future.

• Ashford is home to over 50 schools, including grammar, state and private eduction, which produce higher than the national average level of A* to C GCSE passes
• The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) is one part of Ashford’s enhanced education programme.
• Plans to create a further 15 primary and three secondary schools over the next 20 years will directly benefit the community’s educational needs.
• The Ashford School of Art and Design (ASAD), part of South Kent College, offers courses from GCSE to university-accredited HND and degree level.
• Plans for a new K College higher and further education campus in Ashford town centre.
• Nearby Canterbury is home to two excellent universities, Canterbury Christ Church University, and the University of Kent, which also shares a campus in Medway with the University of Greenwich.
  
  

More Information

You can find out more details about schools in the area by visiting the Kent County Council Find a School website.

For more detailed information on higher education with South Kent College and the Ashford Learning Campus visit the South Kent College website.