Medway Secondary Schools & Academies M-R

updated September 2018

An explanation of how Progress 8 and Attainment 8 are calculated, and further information on the performance of all Medway schools (provisionally) can be found here.

The PAN is the Published Admission Number and refers to the number of places available in the year group for each school.

Rainham Mark Grammar School, Rainham. Lead school in the Rainham Mark Grammar School Academy Group, incorporating Twydall Primary School. The school continues to grow in popularity. The school selected on high scores until 2017 and has now switched to mainly geographical proximity without apparent loss of popularity. OFSTED June 2014 - Outstanding, up from Good. Loses too high a percentage of pupils after GCSE and end of Year 11. For 2016 entry, 22 students dropped out from A Level in Year 12 in 2016, a high 13% of the total. See article. For 2017 19% after GCSE and 10% at the end of Year 12.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	1st preferences not offered
2014	205	226	37
2015	205	227	29
2016	205	207	19
2017	205	241	62
2018	205	259	33

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2014	35	5
2015	34	7
2016	25	5
2017	60	6

Appeals organised by Independent Appeal Administrator. It is consistently difficult to win a place on appeal. For reasons I don't understand, the Appeals Panel for this excellent school conducts some of the most aggressive appeals in Kent or Medway where it is not clear there is a positive outcome.

2014 - 5 of the 19 who had passed had appeals upheld

2015 - 7 of the 20 who had passed had appeals upheld

2017 - 6 of the 49 who had passed had appeals upheld

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	% 5A*-C (inc Eng and Maths)	KS5 Progress Score
2014	n/a	n/a	98
2015	n/a	n/a	97
2016	0.24	66.5	Grade 5 & above Eng and Maths
2017	0.24(AA)	64.3	87%	-0.12(BA)
2018(P)	0.37(AA)	64.7	86%

Rainham School for Girls, Gillingham. The school is an academy, part of the Kemnal Manor Trust (Bromley). OFSTED May 2016 - Good again.

offered places, and again for 2016 admission.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	1st preferences not offered
2014	270	263	44
2015	270	259	37
2016	270	259	0
2017	270	209	1
2018	270	232	17

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2014	10	10
2015	32	32
2016	28	28
2017	0	0

For 2015, 2016 and 2018 there was a group session for appeals and after this the appeal panel decided to offer places to all appellants. No guarantee this will happen for 2019!

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	% 5A*-C (inc Eng and Maths)	KS5 Progress Score
2014	n/a	n/a	57
2015	n/a	n/a	49
2016	0.3	49.7	Grade 5 & above Eng and Maths
2017	-0.08 (A)	42.1	33%	0.13(AA)
2018(P)	0.10(A)	43.3	28%

Robert Napier School, Gillingham. An academy sponsored by the Fort Pitt Thomas Aveling Academies Trust. OFSTED July 2016 - Requires Improvement.

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	Vacant places	LAA Allocations
2014	210	73	23	42
2015	180	87	0	40
2016	180	85	36	19
2017	180	94	0	25
2018	180	111	1	11

2014 - 2017 all first preferences offered

Most of the Local Authority Allocations would have been unsuccessful applicants for Brompton, Howard or Rainham Girls.

2014 - 2018 no appeals for school admission

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	% 5A*-C (inc Eng and Maths)	KS5 Progress Score
2014	n/a	n/a	31
2015	n/a	n/a	26
2016	-0.08	41.7	Grade 5 & above Eng and Maths
2017	-0.11 (A)	35.3	9%	-0.24(BA)
2018(P)	-0.15(A)	37.9	20%

The Rochester Grammar School. Part of Thinking Schools Academy Trust.

News December 2018: In a complete reversal of its recent history, RGS has proposed to give priority for admission to girls living closest to the school and scrapping its high scores category. For further details here.

OFSTED Outstanding in November 2008. Selected mainly on high aggregate scores, but put forward changes in Admission criteria to offer more places to connected girls with basic passes in Medway Test. Some of these were turned down by Schools Adjudicator in 2018. The number of first preferences has increased in most years, wholly down to increased pressure from out of county, see below. The school is scrapping A Level from September 2019 onwards changing to 100% International Baccalaureate.

24 girls dropped out from A Level in Year 12 in 2016, a high 13% of the total. See article, Fell to 10% in 2017, along with all other grammar schools following my exposure of malpractice. This could be simply down to the pressure that girls are placed on to achieve, with others falling out or being encouraged to leave in the main school if they can't keep up to the standard. However, for those who have the ability and motivation to succeed it is reportedly a great experience, hence the school's popularity. One can only speculate how the school will manage under the new admission rules with the small minority of girls admitted on basic pass scores. Or much more importantly how the girls will fare!

INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
	PAN	1st preferences	1st preferences not offered	Cut off. Marks above pass score	Out of County Allocations
2014	175	172	6	1	53
2015	205	222	24	10	48
2016	175	198	36	18	59
2017	205	268	87	33	76
2018	205	241	55	25	81

APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
	Appeals Heard	Upheld
2014	14	5
2015	28	6
2016	43	3
2017	69	5
2018	47	8

All successful appeals in the past five years have been from girls who were found selective by the Medway Test.

2015 - 6 of the 18 who had passed had appeals upheld

2016 - 3 of the 19 who had passed had appeals upheld

2017 - 5 of the 67 who had passed had appeals upheld

2018 - 8 of the 31 who had passed had appeals upheld

PERFORMANCE DATA
	Progress 8	Attainment 8	% 5A*-C (inc Eng and Maths)	KS5 Progress Score
2014	n/a	n/a	99
2015	n/a	n/a	99
2016	0.68	71	Grade 5 & above Eng and Maths
2017	0.88 (WAA)	71	95%	0.1(A)
2018(P)	0.64(WAA)	66.5	87%