Medway Review 2011 Entry

Medway 11 plus data 2011 entry

The following statistics suggest the reason for the lower score for successful candidates in the Medway test this year:

This shows that once again, exactly 23% of the Medway cohort passed the test, the proportion defining the pass mark, with 42% of those taking the test achieving a pass mark, almost exactly the same as last year (41%). The number of Kent children taking the test was up by 41, although the number who passed was up by just 8. The small number of out county candidates was very similar to last year.

The proportion of Medway children who took the test fell by two percent, which was probably the most significant factor in seeing the pass mark fall to 508 from 521, because of the arcane way the score is determined.  Rolls in Medway Year Six children continue to fall, explaining why the number of candidates and successful candidates has declined significantly. This means that pressures on places at individual Medway Grammar schools (and indeed many other Medway schools) should ease further.

Medway Secondary School Appeals 2010 entry

Notes:

(1) Appeals for Community and VC Schools are organised by Medway Council. Appeals for Foundation & VA Schools, and Academies, are organised by independent appeal administrators

(2) These figures do not necessarily indicate succss rates in the future, as appeals are judged on the strength of individual cases, not by quotas, and the membership of each Panel varies year on year. 

Medway Primary School Appeals 2010 entry

Of the 62 Reception Appeals heard, 15 were upheld, all at two schools, with special circumstances due to other schools nearby closing. The zero succss rate at the other 12 schools underlines the difficulty of winning a reception appeal because of Infant class legislation.

Medway Secondary School Application figures September 2010 entry.

Medway Test information for 2010 entry

There were no candidates for review outside Medway and Kent.

2009 Medway Secondary School 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.