KCC only counts children who passed the eleven plus, applied for a grammar school and were offered none of their choices. The 7 Sheppey girls applied for Highsted Grammar School in the expectation, as in previous years, that they would be awarded a place. Whatever their other choices they were awarded none of these and will have been allocated Isle of Sheppey Academy although they did not apply for it. All the other Sheppey girls named at least one non selective school as a safety net  (which could have included Isle of Sheppey Academy) and were allocated a non selective school on their list. KCC chooses to regard such children as satisfied and so does not count them. I am trying to find out the total number of children who qualified for, and applied for a grammar school in Kent but were not offered one, whatever their other options. I suspect this figure is much higher than 67 and could be as high as a couple of hundred. I shall not know for a few weeks as I am doing this through a Freedom of Information request.