Index
Folkestone and Dover
All four grammar schools set local tests, success at which offers an alternative route for qualification to the Kent Test. All but Dover Boys slightly oversubscribed with first choices as a result. The following table shows the outcome of all Local Tests.
| Kent Grammar School Allocations including Local Tests 2019 | |||||
| School | PAN | Kent Test | Local Test | Vacancies |
% Pupil
Premium
|
| Dover Boys | 150 | 37 | 101 | 12 | 19% |
| Dover Girls | 140 | 56 | 84 | 0 | 20% |
| Folkestone Girls | 180 | 76 | 104 | 0 | 20% |
| Harvey | 150 | 88 | 62 | 0 | 20% |
| Other Grammar Schools with Local Tests | |||||
| Highsted | 150 | 109 | 29 | 2 | 13% |
| Mayfield | 180 | 145 | 35 | 0 | 9% |
The four Folkestone and Dover grammar schools have, as s result of the Local Tests, considerably the highest proportion of Year 7 children in Year 7 on Pupil Premium, next being Highworth with 15%. This is according to October's school census which has the average for grammar schools at 10%.
Three schools were oversubscribed, with Dover Girls - offering places to 136 out of its 157 first choices, qualified by either route; : Folkestone School for Girls - 179 out of its 190 first choices; and Harvey Grammar - 163 first choices for its 150 places, details not yet available.
One negative consequence of Local Testing, in Dover is that GCSE performance in non-selective schools is significantly undermined as they lose many of their most able pupils, and will be for Folkestone when the Shepway Test children take GCSE for the first time this summer.
