updated February 2021
You will find an initial article on 2020 allocations here, an article on 2020 oversubscription data for Medway 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 2020 Appeals Outcomes here. For Attainment 8 and Progress 8 and further information on the performance of all Medway schools with 2019 GCSE scores go to here for explanation. In the Individual performance table, under KS5 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.
INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
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PAN
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1st
preferences
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1st preferences
not offered
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2016 | 205 | 207 | 19 |
2017 | 205 | 241 | 62 |
2018 | 205 | 259 | 33 |
2019 | 235 | 253 | 27 |
2020 | 235 | 251 | 29 |
APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
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Appeals Heard
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Upheld
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2016 | 25 | 5 |
2017 | 60 | 6 |
2018 | 46 | 11 |
2019 | 43 | 9 |
2020 | 54 | 8 |
PERFORMANCE DATA | ||||
Prog 8
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Attain 8
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Level 5
Eng & Maths
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KS5 Progress
Score*
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2016 | 0.24 | 66.5 | ||
2017 | 0.24(AA) | 64.3 | 87% | -0.12(BA) |
2018 | 0.36(AA) | 64.8 | 86% | -0.02(A) |
2019 | 0.27 (AA) | 65.7 | 90% | 0.03(A,129,B-,113) |
Rainham Mark Ofsted Performance | ||
Inspection Type | Outcome | |
Jan 2016 |
No Formal
Designation
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Issues Regarding
Safeguarding Addressed
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Jun 2014 | Full | Outstanding |
Mar 2012 | Interim | Good |
Oct 2008 | Full | Good |
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INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
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PAN
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1st
preferences
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1st preferences
not offered
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2016 | 270 | 259 | 0 |
2017 | 270 | 209 | 1 |
2018 | 270 | 232 | 17 |
2019 | 270 | 293 | 63 |
2020 | 300 | 296 | 37 |
APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
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Appeals Heard
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Upheld
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2016 |
28
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28 |
2017 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 18 | 18 |
2019 | 56 | 56 |
2020 | 37 | 37 |
PERFORMANCE DATA | ||||
Prog 8
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Attain 8
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Level 5
Eng & Maths
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KS5 Progress
Score
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2016 | 0.3 | 49.7 |
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2017 | -0.08 (A) | 42.1 | 33% | 0.13(AA) |
2018 | 0.09(A) | 43.4 | 28% | -0.13(BA) |
2019 | 0.31 | 44.0 | 31% | -0.06(A,123,C-,56) |
Typically second Best Non-Selective GCSE performer at Progress 8 and Attainment 8 in Medway 2019
Rainham Girls Ofsted Performance | ||
Inspection Type | Outcome | |
May 2016 | Full | Good |
Jun 2012 | Full | Good |
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Robert Napier School, Gillingham. Became an academy sponsored by the Fort Pitt Thomas Aveling Academies Trust in September 2012 OFSTED January 2019 - Good, up from Requires Improvement. Has certainly struggled but appears on the way up. Now needs to lose its reputation. However, performance slumped again for summer 2019, lowest Medway Progress 8 and Attainment 8.
INITIAL ALLOCATIONS
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PAN
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1st
preferences
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Vacant
places
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LAA
Allocations
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2016
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180
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85
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36
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19 |
2017 | 180 | 94 | 0 | 25 |
2018 | 180 | 111 | 1 | 11 |
2019 | 180 | 79 | 0 | 22 |
2020 | 210 | 109 | 0 | 18 |
PERFORMANCE DATA | ||||
Prog 8
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Attain 8
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Level 5
Eng & Maths
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KS5 Progress
Score*
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2016 | -0.08 | 41.7 |
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2017 | -0.11 (A) | 35.3 | 9% | -0.24(BA) |
2018 | -0.15(A) | 37.9 | 20% | -0.72 (WBA) |
2019 | -0.64 (WBA) | 32.3 | 10% | -0.3( BA,41,D+,10) |
Robert Napier Ofsted Performance | ||
Inspection Type | Outcome | |
Jan 2019 | Full | Good |
Jul 2018 | Monitoring | Effective Action |
Sep 2016 | Full | Requires Improvement |
Jul 2015 | Monitoring | Effective action |
Oct 2014 | Monitoring | Not Taking Effective Action |
Jul 2014 | Full | Requires Improvement |
+Jan 2019 inspection transformation
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The Rochester Grammar School. Part of Thinking Schools Academy Trust. Became a Converter Academy in February 2012. In a complete reversal of its recent history, RGS is giving priority for admission to girls living closest to the school and scrapping its high scores category for 2020 admissions onward. For further details here. OFSTED Outstanding in November 2008. No further Inspection for 12 years. Had previously put forward smaller 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 school scrapped A Level from September 2019 onward, changing to 100% International Baccalaureate, with a disastrous fall in numbers. The change of admission criteria produced its own fall in popularity in 2020, the combination fo the two being looked at here.
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. right down to 1% in 2019. Also according to the October 2019 census, a net 13% of girls left the school after Year 11 (some will have joined). Appears high for a grammar school, but three other Medway grammars had more! The staying on rate for Year 11 girls fell sharply to 46% in 2020, lower than one in two girls staying on, and greater only than Dover Grammar Boys with its very different type of catchment.
These losses 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
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PAN
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1st
preferences
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1st preferences
not offered
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Cut off.
Marks above
pass score
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Out of
County
Places
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2016 | 175 | 198 | 36 | 18 | 59 |
2017 | 205 | 268 | 87 | 33 | 76 |
2018 | 205 | 241 | 55 | 25 | 81 |
2019 | 175 | 266 | 121 | 58 | 74 |
2020 | 235 | 238 | 25 |
No Longer
Relevant
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83 |
APPEALS FOR SCHOOL PLACES
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Appeals Heard
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Upheld
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2016
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43
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3
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2017 | 69 | 5 |
2018 | 47 | 8 |
2019 | 48 | 5 |
2020 | 20 | 6 |
PERFORMANCE DATA | ||||
Prog 8
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Attain 8
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Level 5
Eng and Maths
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KS5 Progress
Score*
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2016 | 0.68 | 71 |
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2017 | 0.88 (WAA) | 71 | 95% | 0.1(A) |
2018 | 0.63(WAA) | 66.6 | 87% | -0.01 (A) |
2019 | 0.81 (WAA) | 69.0 | 92% | -0.22(BA,117,B-,104) |
Consistently very high performance at GCSE.
Rochester Grammar Ofsted Performance | ||
Inspection Type | Outcome | |
Nov 2008 | Full | Outstanding |
Nov 2003 | Full | Highly Effective with Outstanding Feature |
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