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Medway Admission Statistics

Medway Test information for 2010 entry

The total number of Year Six Medway children was 3149  (Interestingly, in spite of publicity about falling rolls in Medway, this is 140 more than last year).
 
  Candidates Successes % Success % of cohort
Medway 1759 727 41 23
Kent           314 222 71  
Out County 16 12 75  
 
With a further 4 Kent children passing on Review, this gives a total of 222 Kent children being found selective in Medway, 33 up on last year. The higher pass rate for Kent children merely reflects the higher ability of those likely to submit to an additonal set of tests.
 
The outside Kent and Medway figures are almost identical to last year. It is likely that most of this group just took the tests for practice with no intention of taking up a Medway Grammar school place. None of these Kent or out of county figures are used to determine the pass score which, as can be seen is fixed to allow 23% of Medway children.
 
Following the test results, parents of children who have not passed are invited to submit them for a review, which is designed to admit an additional 2% of Medway children. Review numbers for the Medway tests are as follows:
 

  Candidates Successes % Success % of cohort
Medway 270 63 23 2
Kent 26 4 15  
Total 296 67 23  

There were no candidates for review outside Medway and Kent.

2009 Entry

  Unfortunately, my request for statistics did not cover the full information I have for Kent. However:

Thomas Aveling is the most oversubscribed school in Medway, 40 first choices turned away. Next in order were The Rochester Grammar School (26), Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School (21), New Brompton College (20), Greenacre School (17), Robert Napier and The Strood Academy (14) and Chatham South (13).

Medway Tests 2008 for 2009 Entry

The number of children in Year Six in Medway Schools in 2008/9 was 3009. Of these, 1732 took the Medway tests, 685 being successful before the Review process. This is 23% of the cohort as expected under the procedures. A further 65 Medway children were successful in Review making a total of 25% of the cohort.

Another 306 Kent children took the Medway tests, 189 being successful (including those at Review). From outside Kent or Medway, just 15 children took the Medway tests, 9 being successful. It is likely that most of this last group just took the tests for practice with no intention of taking up a Medway Grammar school place. None of these out of county figures are used to determine the pass score.

 Medway School Appeals 2007-8

Medway Council is only responsible for the appeals at three grammar schools. At Chatham Boys Grammar there were 3 successful appeals out of 13, at Fort Pitt, 8 successful appeals out of 20. At the Maths School, the outcomes were more complicated (see appeals page). 17 appeals out of 32 were successful, but these were all oversubscription appeals for boys who had already passed the Medway test. Another 9 boys were offered places after complaints by me to the ombudsman about the appeal process. 

There were four oversubscribed non selective schools under Medway Council control. At Chatham South all 24 appeals were successful,, and at Greenacres all 8 appeals were successful. At Rainham Girls 8 out of 16 appeals were successful and at Walderslade Girls school the one appeal was successful.

All other secondary schools are Foundation Schools and have responsibility for their own appeals.

There were 51 infant school appeals. Of these 11 were successful, but just 3 of the successful appeals happened where there were classes of 30 and therefore subject to Infant Class Legislation.