You will find an article on 2018 oversubscription data for grammar schools here, and for non-selective schools here. For Grammar School Preferences, only grammar qualified are counted. The PAN is the Published Admission Number and refers to the number of places available in the year group for each school. If additional places were offered, I have recorded this under PAN.  

A Report on 2018 Appeals Outcomes here. For Attainment 8 and Progress 8 and further information on the performance of all Kent schools with 2018 GCSE scores go to here for explanation. 

 Oakwood Park Grammar School.  OFSTED February 2019 - Good.  It rarely fills at 150 students, as there is a surplus of grammar school places in Maidstone, but  has a high proportion of successful appeals. The school has been  prepared to go up to 180 after such appeals. 2018 GCSE sound, but Ofsted found 16-19 programme Outstanding.

 The school looks for a considerable number of boys each year through the appeals process to make up numbers.  

 GCSE performance at 5 A*-Cs dipped in 2016 and 2017.  Out of bottom quarter for grammar schools in both, 2018. 

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Oasis Academy Hextable.  Now closed.

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Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey.  Chequered life for as long as I can remember. That is, back to 1983 when I was headhunted to run the then 13-19 school, but did not apply in the end after I had explored it! Became an Academy in 2009, sponsored by Dulwich College who failed to make it a success. In September 2009 after years of controversy over the change of age and ways to convert, it changed from 13-18 to become a two site 11-18 school with 18 forms of entry, the largest school in the country at that time.  After yet another Principal was removed, the highly respected David Day was appointed just before OFSTED in 2011  which failed it with Notice to Improve although finding it now had capacity to improve. In February 2013, new buildings were opened on both sites. OFSTED a month later found it considerably improved, although classifying it as Requires Improvement. This was not enough and Dulwich College gave up the task it had proved inadequate for and the academy was handed over to the Oasis Group. Mr Day was of course removed in spite of the improvements he was making. OFSTED returned in March 2015, and again found it Requires Improvement, the main criticisms being the achievement of students and the quality of teaching. I have updated the story several times in news items, most recently here, with back links, revealing a worrying level of criticism including high off-rolling of students pre-GCSE.  Although headteacher had clearly failed as performance declined, he was promoted on the back of it to become Executive Principal of Leigh Academy Trust's Crown Woods Academy. Looks as if he was moved on after less than two years.. Well done Oasis!  March 2017 Ofsted again, New head appointed Easter 2017 previously Deputy Head, introduced highly controversial new disciplinary process as school become one of Kent's three Tough Love Academies. introduced March 2017 by new Headteacher. May 2017: Major concerns developing overlarge number of Year 11 pupils leaving to attend Swale Pupil Referral Unit, and high proportion of others leaving for Elective Home Education. This head lasted just a year before being moved on. Next headteacher was again previously Deputy Head, after schools looked hard and failed to find an external candidate for the second time.  No change of Tough Love Policy, indeed probably an intensification. 

School has been bedevilled by running two equivalent schools on the two sites (excellent for moving difficult or vulnerable children from site to site). 2018 saw a radical new plan announced to run one site as an academic school, the other as vocational. Sounds tricky!

2017-18: Highest number and second highest proportion of Home Education and second highest number and proportion of Fixed Term Exclusions in Kent. 2018-19 highest number and proportion of Fixed Term Exclusions in Kent, at 1025, over 500 more than the second placed school in Kent. 

2014 -2019 all first preferences offered and no appeals for school admission.

The school always has vacancies and for 2015 68 children who had not applied to the school were given places on allocation, the highest number in Kent apart from the closing Marlowe Academy. For 2017 the figure was 47, fourth highest in the county, the 98 vacancies referring to the situation after these children were allocated to the school 

One of lowest performing schools in Kent for 2016 GCSE. Slumped 2018 second lowest in both Progress 8 and Attainment 8. 2019 some improvement in GCSE relative to other Kent schools. 

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Orchards Academy, Swanley.  Coincidentally the second school I was headhunted for back around 1983 but refused! At that time it had some 1500 students, but has been shrinking ever since under mixed leadership, recently losing out to the more popular Knole Academy in Sevenoaks. Starting to improve in recent years, it has received a real fillip with the closure of the Oasis Academy Hextable (above) . OFSTED July 2016 - Good.  A member of the Kemnal Academies Trust. First choices well up for 2019. 

2014 - 2019 no appeals for school admission.

One of highest performing non-selective schools in Kent for Progress 8, in 2016. Not regarded as a fashionable school perhaps because of history, but clearly on the up. 

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Pent Valley Technology College, Folkestone. Now closed.

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Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Faversham. One of five mixed grammar schools in Kent. OFSTED March 2015 - Outstanding.  The first grammar school in the country to expand its PAN in 2012, from 120 to 140. This leaves around 10 places for successful appeals.

2014 - 2017 no vacant places. Regularly heavily oversubscribed, soared for 2017 and 2018, possibly as Simon Langton Girls in Canterbury less popular following controversy.  

For 2018 qualified pupils living up to 7 miles and more were offered places. For 2019, the distance has fallen to 5.838 miles. 

Usually attracts a large number of appeals.

GCSE Progress 8 lowest grammar in the county for 2018. A Level progress, best in county! But 13% of pupils left half way through A Level course, 2017-18, highest in Kent.

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Royal Harbour Academy, Ramsgate. Opened in September 2015. Ofsted Special Measures June 2018. Based on previous successful Ellington and Hereson (PFI) schools which subsequently combined (previous Ofsted Good in 2012), together with failed Marlowe Academy which was closed in July 2015. The Marlowe premises are now used for the lower school which has not proved popular with E&H parents.  The school became part of the Coastal Academies Trust, headed up by Dane Court Grammar and King Ethelbert School on 1st April 2014, although it is not an academy itself, because of the PFI issue, although it did apply. Ellington and Hereson had been very popular for years, pressure brought about by parents trying to avoid Marlowe!  Royal Harbour has become one of the two Thanet schools to avoid, along with Hartsdown (2019), as demonstrated  by the high number of Local Authority Allocations (below). Second lowest GCSE Progress 8 and Attainment 8 in Kent for 2019 (Provisional)

For 2014 entry, there were 5 first choices turned away, and 25 for 2015, before the takeover of Marlowe was announced, which created sufficient spaces to accommodate all who wanted to go there. The new school is still struggling badly to establish itself with parents. For 2016, there were 56 Local Authority Allocations, for 2017 there were an astonishing 89 taking the school 31 children over PAN. There must have been considerable KCC pressure to admit the extra pupils, because of lack of spaces in all Thanet schools, but surely the school would have been wiser to resist and focus on improving standards. 2019 further decline in first choices.

Academically, Marlowe was a disaster throughout, its 6% 5 A*-Cs in 2015 being one of the lowest percentages of success in the country. Ellington slipped over its last three years, from 43% in 2013, to a very worrying 23% in 2015. Along with nearby Hartsdown Academy shared the county's lowest GCSE Attainment 8 and Performance 8 results in 2016. Improvement for 2018. Second lowest Progress 8 and Attainment 8 for GCSE in 2019.

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