Updated April 2018 

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 2017 Appeals Outcomes here. For Attainment 8 and Progress 8 and further information on the performance of all Kent schools with 2017 GCSE scores go to here for explanation. 

Dane Court Grammar School.

 An FOI request for further data, shows that eight of those offered places initially rejected them. Of these for technical reasons, just five were reallocated, all to applicants living outside Kent. We can deduce that all offers to Kent boys were accepted. 

Worryingly low GCSE performance for 2015 being 93%, below 94% for second consecutive year. 

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Usually second most oversubscribed Kent school (to Dartford Grammar), under enormous pressure  from London families. 

There were no appeals: 2014-2017 

There were no appeals 2014-2017 

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Dover Grammar School for Boys. Admission is either by the Dover Test (for boys and girls) or the Kent Test, children also being able to take both. The Dover test comprises VR, NVER, maths and English and pass is by an aggregate score. The Dover Test is not recognised by KCC as valid for entrance to any other grammar school and a pass has not generally been considered a valid case by Independent Appeal Panels for other grammar schools.  As much as half of the intake is through the Dover Test.   OFSTED Feb 2016- Good, up from Requires Improvement (the only Kent grammar school to be given RI).   

Note 1: For 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018 The Preference data refers to all boys who qualified for places. 

Note 2: For 2015, The preference data applies to boys who applied with Kent Test passes only.

For 2017 entry, 33 boys qualified through Kent Test, 105 through Dover Test. 2018 entry, 50 boys qualified through Kent Test, 100 through Dover Test.

GCSE outcomes low for a grammar school, unsurprising given nature of intake. 

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Dover Grammar School for Girls.OFSTED Nov 2013: Outstanding - as in 2007.Admission is either by the Dover Test (for boys and girls) or the Kent Test, children also being able to take both. The Dover test comprises VR, NVER, maths and English and pass is by an aggregate score. The Dover Test is not recognised by KCC as valid for entrance to any other grammar school and a pass has not generally been considered a valid case by Independent Appeal Panels for other grammar schools.  Very popular HT left summer 2017. 

Note 1: For 2014, The Preference data refers to all boys who qualified for places.

Note 2: For 2015, 87 of the offers were for Girls who qualified under the Dover Test. The preference data applies to girls who applied with Kent Test passes only. For 2017 entry, 88 of the 140 offers went to girls who passed the Dover Test only.  For 2018, 80 of the 140 offers went to girls who passed the Dover Test only. 

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 Duke of York's Academy, Dover. This once private school run by the MOD became a mainstream state funded part boarding academy with military traditions from September 2010, sponsored by the Secretary of State for Defence. Although it remains primarily focused on providing continuity of education for the children of those serving in the Armed Forces who live in the region,the current ratio of intake is 80% non-military 20% military, providing one of many important breaks with tradition. This priority is reflected in the oversubscription criteria, other children qualifying for access after all military preferences have been met, subject to a "Suitability for Boarding" assessment by the school which appears to offer no right of appeal if the child is turned down. In terms of cost alone, the boarding school offers excellent value for money:Boarding fees are £10,500 per year and education is paid for by the state. If parents qualify for Continuity of Education Allowance (Service families only), they could pay just £1,050 a year. One correspondent notes this equates to less than £40 per day for all boarding fees. The school has now concludeda £24 million building programme as a result of its change of status.  The school is going through a period of dramatic change since it became an academy, and forced to change its admission rules. The biggest difference is that the school has become non-selective; a dramatic change from its previous role as a private grammar school. The non-military intake is changing the ethos and, along with the change to an all ability school has come a rise in the proportion of children with Special Education Needs to 30%. The school reports that (June 2012): "we are a state boarding school and can accept anyone from the European Economic Area who holds a British Passport or has the right to reside in the UK.  Our children come to us from various different countries.

The school has been haunted by controversy and allegations for years, and is the subject of a current police investigation (April 2018), as reported here. There have been a number of OFSTED Reports trying to pin down the issues, most recently looking at overall effectiveness most recently in a Monitoring Report January 2017;  and an unannounced Social Care Inspection at the same time.