Medway Test and Review Outcomes 2020* | ||||
Medway | Out of County** | |||
Boys | Girls | Total | Total | |
Number in
Cohort
|
1826 | 1694 | 3520 | |
Taking Test
|
882 | 922 | 1912 | 1585 |
Passing Test | 378 | 434 | 812 | 1126 |
% Pass Rate | 20.7% | 25.6% | 23.06% | |
Number of Reviews
|
62 | 71 | 133 | 33 |
Number of Reviews
Upheld
|
8 | 4 | 12 | Approx 5 |
% of Cohort Review Success Rate
|
0.44% | 0.24% | 0.34% | |
TOTAL Success Rate | 21.69% | 25.86% | 23.41% |
Remarkably, three of the eight Medway schools with a pass rate of more than 40% of their Year Six in the Medway Test are Catholic schools, whose leadership is theoretically opposed to selection. The eight schools are, in order: St Thomas More Catholic, St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic, St Margaret's at Troy Town CofE, Wainscott, Fairview, Horsted Juniors, St William of Perth Catholic and St Mary's Island CofE. One of the reasons I don't get too excited about primary school Kent and Medway Test League tables is that there is no way of knowing how much of the calibre of results is down to private tuition centres and how much the school.
Medway Pupils Test & Review Outcomes | ||||||
Test Success % | Review Success % | |||||
Boys | Girls | Total | Boys | Girls | Total | |
2020 | 20.7 | 25.6 | 23.1 | 0.44 | 0.24 | 0.34 |
2019 | 22.2 | 24.1 | 23.2 | 0.22 | 0.63 | 0.43 |
2018 | 21.8 | 24.3 | 23.1 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.12 |
2017 | 23.1 | 23.0 | 23.0 | 0.24 | 0.49 | 0.37 |
2016 | 21.0 | 25.2 | 23.1 | 0.61 | 0.86 | 0.74 |
The Review process in Medway is an appalling scheme requiring parents to make a difficult gamble on their child's future education, about whether to go through with a Review or go straight to appeal. Officers are at present in the middle of their own review of the process. Why not abolish the Medway Review or replace it with a scheme such as the Kent Headteacher Assessment process which avoids the pitfalls. This follows previous articles dating back another four years on my previous website.
You will find my most recent full analysis of the Review process at: Medway Test Analysis for 2019 Admission: Review fails Medway children again, where there were 15 successful Reviews, or 0.43%
Out of County Medway Test Passes
Out of County Medway Passes 2020 | ||||
Local Authority
|
2020
Passes
|
2020 Allocated to Medway Grammar |
2019
Passes
|
2020 Allocations
To Other LAs
|
Medway Private* | 56 | N/A | 59 | N/A |
Kent | 463 | 142 | 466 | 110 |
Bexley | 179 | 33 | 151 | 51 |
Greenwich | 154 | 26 | 134 | 55 |
Bromley | 53 | 6 | 61 | 15 |
Lewisham | 42 | 8 | 34 | 5 |
Thurrock | 30 | 5 | 17 | 0 |
Southwark | 19 | 5 | 18 | 5 |
Barking & Dagenham | 16 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
TOTAL (All Authorities) | 1130 | 266 | 980 | 246 |