As soon as I write something positive about Kent primary school standards, bad news has a habit of turning up, this time with two  more OFSTED failures at Sandown School in Deal and Kingsmead Primary in Canterbury.   

The story of Sandown Primary in Deal illustrates the problems too many schools are having...........

Latest additions in bold. 

Parents in Kent and Medway will have started receiving the allocated secondary schools for their children from 4 p.m. today (Thursday) if they registered to receive them by email, otherwise everyone should have received their decision by post on Friday. 

Headlines: Much the same as for 2011; main difference is a further rise in pressure on West & North West Kent grammar schools, fuelled by an increase in out county  applicants. Super selective required scores provided below

Congratulations to my first enquirer for a consultation, from Medway 4.15 p.m.!

The main Kent table of outcomes is as follows:....

Key Stage 2 results for all primary schools in England were published today, with some improvement for Kent schools, although they are still below the national average. This year there are nine Kent schools in the bottom 200 in the country, which is better than 2010 when 10% of all the bottom 200 schools were in Kent. However, the results must still be a matter for serious concern as the proportion of children across Kent achieving Level 4 in both maths and English at Key Stage 2 continues to be consistently below the national average,.........

OFSTED has chosen to redesign its website, so all the links to individual OFSTED Reports in this website are now obsolete! I shall be working to replace the links over the next few months,  but in the meantime, you will find the links take you to OFSTED general, from where you can make your own connection.

Morehall School in Folkestone has failed its second OFSTED in two years, and so becomes at risk of closure, as it was served with Notice to Improve in November 2009. This makes three out of ten Shepway Primary Schools having failed their inspections in the last year and a half.......

You can catch me on BBC South East 6.30 this evening, commenting on a case in Thanet, and if they give me air time, more general issues surrounding today's allocations. 

I now have details of KCC primary admission data as below

Pupils	2011		2010
	No of pupils	%	No of pupils	%
Offered a named school	15,299	94.2%	14,298	95.8%
Offered first preference	13,801	84.9%	13,118	88%
Offered second preference	1,080	6.7%	842	5.6%
Offered third preference	414	2.6%	329	2.2%
ooc offered fourth pref	4	0.02%	N/A	N/A
Allocated by KCC	768	4.7%	564	3.8%
ooc not offered a place	182	1.1%	67	0.4%
Total of applications	16,249		14,920

You will find the parallel Medway statistics here.

Early thoughts: These are very disappointing results given that KCC itself warned of pressures on Kent Primary places in 2011.......