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Individual School Information - C

updated October 2020, September 2021 allocation figures added

You will find an initial article on 2021 allocations here, an article on 2021 oversubscription data for grammar schools here, and for non-selective schools here. For Grammar School Preferences, only grammar-qualified children 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 2020 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 an explanation. 2020 GCSE and A-Level outcomes were not published, nor will they be for 2021

In the Individual performance table, under the A-Level Progress heading for 2019, you will find a figure like this: -0.37(BA,104, D+, 60). This tells you that the school has a Progress performance level at A-Level, of -0,37, which is Below Average, 104 students took at least one A-Level with an average grade of D+, with 60 students taking three A Levels. A gap between the number of students taking one and those taking three A-Levels can be indicative of the number of vocational courses being offered.

The Canterbury Academy . (previously The Canterbury High School). Is in Federation with Canterbury Primary School, and several sporting centres providing excellent facilities, together forming (slightly confusingly) The Canterbury Academy (a multi-academy trust), set up in 2010. Children at Canterbury Primary (Previously Beauherne Primary) have priority for admission after Children in Care and 15% of places going to children with musical ability. Progress 8 within normal limits. The school has a unique and massive Sixth Form. As well as a high proportion of internal students for a non-selective school staying on at 58% in 2020, each year Canterbury High admits students from a wide range of other schools, including grammar schools, totalling 185 for 2020 entry. These included seven from Simon Langton Girls, six from Barton Court, five from Highworth Grammar in Ashford, and five from Dover Boys Grammar. In addition, there were 19 from St Anselm's, 18 from Folkestone Academy, and 15 from the Abbey school, as well as 16 students as part of an overseas programme, homeschooled students, several having moved from other countries, and others from colleges, and re-starting Year 12.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	1st prefs not offered
2015	180	204	47
2016	210	258	76
2017	210	214	33
2018	210	214	35
2019	210	220	33
2020	240	205	5
2021	210	238	87

. PAN increased to 210 for September 2016 admission. For 2017 entry, eventually admitted all who applied and persevered, without appeal.

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2014	8	8
2015	0	0
2016	11	11

For 2020 entry, there were appeals, but numbers were less than five, so KCC who managed them, do not release individual data. 2020 Appeals were 'Paper-Based'. There were no appeals for 2021.

Although oversubscribed, the school expects to lose some students to grammar school appeals. As a result, if unsuccessful, it is worthwhile persisting with an application and appeal, as usually nearly all such efforts prove successful.

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	Grade 5 or above Eng & Maths	A Level Progress Scores
2017	-0.04 (A)	42	23%	-0.22(BA)
2018	-0.48(BA)	38	25%	-0.38(BA)
2019	-0.51 (WBA)	37.5	25%	-0.34(BA,114,D+,58)

CANTERBURY OFSTED RECORD
	Inspection Type	Outcome
Oct 2017	Full	Good
May 2016	Monitoring	Effective Action
Oct 2015	Full	Requires Improvement
Apr 2012	Full	Good

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Castle Community College (Deal), now renamed Goodwin Academy.

Castlemount School, Dover. Historic building destroyed by fire, believed to be arson in 1973. Rebuilt. Closed 1991.

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Charles Dickens School, Broadstairs. Dramatic fall to OFSTED Special Measures September 2014, from Good in May 2011 - see article. In a Monitoring Inspection in December 2014, OFSTED found rapid improvement, casting doubt on the original finding, see article. February 2015, OFSTED found further Reasonable progress. In spite of this, the school was still heavily oversubscribed for September 2015, rejecting 44 first choices, showing a combination of continued faith by parents and the 'fear of the Marlowe Academy' effect. Headteacher retired with immediate effect October 2015, following further fall in 5 GCSEs A*-C to 30% in 2015. See article. OFSTED April 2016: Effective Action to remove SM. There were 5 monitoring visits by OFSTED and in March 2017 the school became an academy, sponsored by Barton Court Academy Trust.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	1st prefs not offered
2016	232	164	30
2017	232	198	33
2018	210	214	35
2019	232	219	77
2020	232	191	37
2021	232	117	21

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2014	28	4
2015	27	8
2016	15	8
2017	27	5
2018	27	6
2019	32	7
2020	24	6

The 2020 appeals were paper based with 5 places offered before the appeals were heard, and 4 withdrawn.

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	Grade 5 or above Eng & Maths	A Level Progress Scores
2016	-0.14	44.8
2017	-0.21 (BA)	36.8	19%	0.22(A)
2018	-0.66(WBA)	33.9	16%	n/a
2019	-0.90 (WBA)	34.3	14%	n/a

Progress 8 in 2019, fifth lowest in Kent

CHARLES DICKENS OFSTED RECORD
	Inspection Type	Outcome
Jun 2019	Full	Requires Improvement*
Apr 2016	Monitoring	Effective Measures
Dec 2015	Monitoring	Effective Measures
Apr 2015	Monitoring	Reasonable Progress
Dec 2014	Monitoring	Plans Fit for Purpose
Sep 2014	Full	Special Measures
May 2011	Full	Good

* After Academisation

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Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School (The Federation of Ramsgate Grammar Schools - not to be confused with Chatham Grammar in Medway). The two Thanet grammar schools become a Federation in the light of falling rolls in Thanet in September 2009. The combined sixth form of some 500 students provides scope for new teaching options and specialisms. The Federation became a single academy in 2012 with both single sex and co-educational lessons in the main school and a fully co-educational sixth form, Mrs Liddicoat having been promoted to become Chief Executive, after a previous disastrous appointment left suddenly. Numbers well up in past two years to September 2017.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	1st Pref Not Offered	Vacant places
2016	180	145	0	26
2017	180	142	0	23
2018	180	168	0	0
2019	180	154	0	5
2020	180	179	29	0
2021	180	161	0	16

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2016	113	47
2017	104	66
2018	82	54
2019	130	18
2020	78	6
2021	93	27

For 2019 entry an amazing 130 appeals, partly brought about by parents trying to avoid local unpopular non-selective schools. Changed Appeal Panel provider to KCC for 2017 appeals, to increase numbers, as shown by increase. For 2018 the school was indirectly attacked by a neighbouring grammar school headteacher for admitting such a large number through appeals upheld, blaming it on the appeal panel for 'forcing' the school to admit the extra numbers. The consequence was the large fall in the success rate for 2019!

For 2020, three appellants were grammar qualified but none of these were successful. 2020 Appeals were 'Paper-Based'. A much higher proportion of Thanet children were found of grammar school ability, hence the oversubscription and the low number of successful appeals.

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	Grade 5 or above Eng & Maths	A Level Progress Scores
2016	0.19	65.0
2017	-0.23 (BA)	58.2	74%	-0.33(BA)
2018	-0.02(A)	61.4	80%	-0.40(BA)
2019	-0.08 (A)	62.9	83%	-0.40(BA,241.C-,215)

OFSTED RECORD
	Inspection Type	Outcome
May 2018	Short	Good
Sep 2014	Full	Good

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Chaucer Technology College Canterbury. CLOSED IN JULY 2014. See article for 2014 update.

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Community College Whitstable - now The Whitstable School

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Cornwallis Academy, Maidstone. Sponsored by the Future Schools Trust. This was formed from the Cornwallis School, previously a heavily oversubscribed successful secondary school in south Maidstone. The Academy was rebuilt at a cost of some £31 million. The Academy places great emphasis on technology. The Academy linked up with the failing Senacre and Oldborough Manor Schools and is now federated with their replacement the New Line Learning Academy (NLL), under one Governing Body. Details are here. OFSTED June 2013 - Good. Issued with Warning Notice November 2015 by DfE, along with NLL relating to poor standards. It was planned that both schools should be re-brokered to Every Child, Every Day Academy Trust. for September 2019, but this was scrapped after performance at both schools finally improved. Recent improvements in GCSE to eighth highest n/s in Kent 2019, Above Average and three consecutive Good Ofsted,s most recently in 2017.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	1st prefs not offered	LAAs	Vacant places
2016	255	196	0	4	6
2017	255	162	0	11	10
2018	255	127	0	11	54
2019	255	144	0	50	0
2020	255	152	0	48	6
2021	210	85		7	77

Popularity has slumped in recent years

2014 - 2018 - no appeals for school admission

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	Grade 5 or above Eng & Maths	A Level Progress Scores
2016	-0.04	45.2
2017	(BA) -0.5	35.4	19%	-0.35(BA)
2018	-0.13(A)	39.3	29%	-0.24(BA)
2019	0.17 (AA)	43.8	38%	-0.13(A,98,D+,33)

CORNWALLIS OFSTED RECORD
	Inspection Type	Outcome
Nov 2017	Full	Good
Jun 2013	Full	Good
Mar 2010	Full	Good

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Cranbrook School. Day and Boarding Grammar School, with entry at 13+ only until recently. Became an academy in 2007. The remainder of this section refers to 13+ entry. A maximum of 98 places has been available for day students, a high proportion being taken up by pupils from local private schools who specialise in coaching for the school's own tests. The School Admission policy states that the selection tests are as follows: "Candidates take an objective test set by NFER and the school also sets supplementary papers in Mathematics and English. The objective NFER test is the primary test". There is no indication of how candidates are selected from the results of these tests. There have been a number of successful complaints over admission appeals. Latest Social Care inspection of the boarding provision was in May 2018 where it was found to be Outstanding again.

The school has changed its age of entry to 11 via a long drawn out process to meet local pressures, fought hard against by the prep school parents, and offered 30 year 7 places for September 2017. Because of high demand, the school is now taking in 60 children at age 11 for 2018 and 19, accelerating the process.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS At YEAR 7
	PAN	1st preferences	1st prefs not offered
2017	30	52	24
2018	60	75	17
2019	60	74	17
2020	60	71	21
2021	60	102	44

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES (year 7)
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2017	10	0
2018	16	2
2019	26	1
2020	31	2

For 2018 appeals, one of the 6 children who had been found selective had their appeal upheld.

For 2019 appeals, one of the 8 children who had been found selective had their appeal upheld.

For 2020 appeals, one of the 9 children who had been found selective had their appeal upheld

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES (year 9)
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2014	6	1
2015	1	0
2016	0	0
2019	3	0
2020	7	0

did not collect Year 9 data for 2017 and 2018

The one appeal for Year 9 in 2019 was unsuccessful

In 2020, all seven Year nine appeals were from grammar qualified children

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	Grade 5 or above Eng & Maths	A Level Progress Scores
2016	n/a	66.4
2017	Low Coverage	63.1	67%	0.09(A)
2018	Low Coverage	68.4	87%	-0.12(BA)
2019	Low Coverage	65.6	86%	0.24(AA,140,B,138)