updated March 2019 

You will find an initial article on 2019 allocations here, 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. 

Canterbury Academy. Is in Federation with Canterbury Primary School, and  several sporting centres providing excellent facilities. 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. The Federation of the two schools is an Academy. Sharp increase in GCSEs with rise to a sound 44.3 in Attainment 8 for 2016. Progress 8 within normal limits.  OFSTED October 2017 -  Good, The school has an massive Sixth Form, taking in students from a range of schools, including grammar schools, up to 160 for 2017 entry. 

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.

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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 has now become a single academy 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. OFSTED September 2014: Good.  Numbers well up in past two years to September 2017. 

In 2018, all 168 grammar qualified first choices were offered places

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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. Both schools re-brokered to Every Child, Every Day Academy Trust. 

Popularity has slumped in recent years

2014 - 2018 - no appeals for school admission

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Cranbrook School. Day and Boarding Grammar School, with entry at 13+ only until recently. 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. Outstanding for the second consecutive time: OFSTED April 2015. Latest Social Care inspection of the boarding provision was in February 2016 where it was found to be Outstanding.  The school is changing its age of entry to 11 via a long drawn out process to meet local pressures, 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, accelerating the process.  

Consistently strong GCSE performance.

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