(updated March 2019) 

You will find an initial article on 2019 allocations here, an article on 2019 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 2019 Appeals Outcomes here. For Attainment 8 and Progress 8 and further information on the performance of all Kent schools with 2019 GCSE scores go to here for explanation. 2019 GCSE performance data is currently provisional before final data is published in January.

St Anselm's Catholic School, Canterbury. OFSTED March 2017- Good again.  Part of the Kent Catholic Schools Partnership.  Increasingly oversubscribed year on year, partly at the expense of Archbishops which has lost popularity, but there is an overall shortage of places in Canterbury since the closure of Chaucer. Oversubscription criteria place emphasis on Catholic background but most practising Christians have qualified in previous years.  

The oversubscription data for 2017 to 2019 make St Anselm's one of the most popular non-selective schools in Kent.

Uses a KCC Independent Appeal Panel, and as in recent years some grammar schools have admitted  high numbers on appeal, most of those persevering to appeal had been awarded places or through the waiting list.  However, pressure on places caught up for 2018.  

Consistently strong academic performance. 

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St Augustine Academy, Maidstone. OFSTED February 2018 - Good again. The Academy has a Christian ethos and is part of the Woodard Academies Trust. The academy has had plenty of vacancies in previous years,  but is now full, with first choices increasing again for 2019. Word of its progress is clearly getting around. There were just 89 pupils taking GCSE in 2018. However, whilst popularity was maintained for 2019 entry, GCSE performance slumped again, possibly a factor in the high number of fixed term exclusions, at 237 sixth highest in the county, as the school attempts to improve matters. 

2014 - 2017 no appeals for school admission

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St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover. Popularity fell for several years as parents voted with their feet until OFSTED in 2013 when the school was placed in Special Measures. I have written an article commenting on this report and subsequent events.  OFSTED October 2014 - improvement to Requires Improvement.  My own thought is that this was actually a Good Report for a school, judged RI, and must have been close to Good overall.  Academy, part of the Kent Catholic Schools Partnership. Like each of the Dover non-selectives suffers because of the high proportion of ablest students creamed off to grammar school through the Dover Test. Good attainment score for 2016. No fresh Ofsted until April 2019, Requires Improvement, three years after academisation. Ofsted Stuck School. Has abandoned Sixth Form,after struggling for numbers. 

 2014 - 2019 all first preferences offered. Popularity improving as a result of OFSTED and performance compared to others. 

2014 - 2016 no appeals for school admission

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Saint George's CofE Foundation School, Broadstairs. Has become an all through school, recruiting at primary school level now through to Year 3. This development will be popular with parents as it offers priority for entry to secondary school, although surprisingly struggled to fill Reception for 2016 entry. OFSTED April 2015 - Good school for the third time, in spite of disastrous GCSE results in 2014 and 2015. In spite of this, popularity increased further for 2015, becoming the most oversubscribed school in the county on allocation in March 2015 through to 2018. Appeal success very difficult. GCSE performance for 2019 very low for such a school. 

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St George's CofE School,  Has become an all through school for 2019 entry, also admitting children into Year R and Year 1. Gravesend.  OFSTED May 2013 found the school to be Good, with outstanding leadership which clearly drove rapid improvements following a disastrous period. Lead school of the Aletheia Anglican Academies Trust.  Popularity continued to rise for 2014 entry. 23 first choices turned away.  Headteacher retired Christmas 2014, to be replaced by Associate Deputy Head who has carried on the good work.  Most recent OFSTED February 2017 found the school continues to be Good.  Heavily oversubscribed. Good GCSE, strong A Level. 

Was second most popular school in Kent (to St George's Broadstairs) in 2016 turning away 123 first choices, 17 most popular in 2018.  Difficult to win an appeal. Introducing Primary section for September 2018, admitting 30 children into both Reception and Year 1, to expand to an intake of 60. This will prove highly successful as pupils will have priority for secondary section when they reach age 11. 

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St Gregory's Catholic School, Tunbridge Wells.  Now an Academy and part of the Kent Catholic Schools Partnership. Oversubscribed.  Priority to Catholics and then other Christians.  OFSTED October 2013 - Outstanding, up from Good.  Not surprisingly after this, popularity soared as school expanded.  In recent years, it appears that most who persisted were probably awarded places one way or another, as there is considerable churning in West Kent. Strong GCSE performance. Has expanded by two forms of entry 2018 and 2019, but still oversubscribed. 

 Two extra classes added for 2018 and 2019 entry but still oversubscribed. 

 All 10 appeals submitted for 2016 were offered places before a hearing. With its own appeal panel, the seven upheld for the past three years appears a pattern?

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St John's Catholic Comprehensive School, Gravesend. Voluntary Aided. Completely new buildings in 2010 through BSF.  Own Independent Appeal Panel. OFSTED June 18 - Good, again. Sound GCSE performance. Popularity soared 2019 entry. One of my favourite schools, through its passion and national reputation  for Military History and Remembrance, interests of my own. 

2014 - 2018 no appeals heard for school admission, although appeals registered; slippage will be due mainly to successful appeals to grammar schools. 

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St Simon Stock Catholic School, Maidstone. OFSTED Good November 2016. Successful and regularly heavily oversubscribed school giving priority to Catholic and then other Christian families.  High performer at GCSE: second best non-selective Kent school for Progress, 2018. Initial numbers fall with high number of successful appeals to grammar school in Maidstone, but no successful appeals in three years, although one in 2019.  Now an Academy and part of the Kent Catholic Schools Partnership. From 2017 admission, the school removed priority for religious connections other than Catholicism. 

 For 2016, there were originally 5 appeals submitted, but four withdrew. A similar pattern will  have occurred up to 2018, school having changed to a KCC Appeal Panel. 

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