Which school to choose?
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Which school to choose?
My daughter is going to Year 5 and will be taking the 11 plus in Sep 2018. We live in Hartley, Longfield. Could anyone suggest the list of grammar schools that we could consider near our place? We are also ready to take medway exams too if required.
Re: Which school to choose?
The best thing to do would be to look at the appropriate section section of your local authority's website (And the Medway one) for the list of schools in your area and have a look at each school's website for its admissions criteria. I understand that most of the Kent grammar schools admit on a pass and then oversubscription criteria such as distance, although a few take score into consideration.Priyavish wrote:My daughter is going to Year 5 and will be taking the 11 plus in Sep 2018. We live in Hartley, Longfield. Could anyone suggest the list of grammar schools that we could consider near our place? We are also ready to take medway exams too if required.
http://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.SchoolSe ... fault.aspx
The 'schools near me' search does work - i put in my old postcode in South East London and it obliged huh a list of Kent schools within chosen radius
.http://new.medway.gov.uk/education/scho ... ments-2018
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Re: Which school to choose?
Many of the Kent schools take on defined parishes as where there are overlaps they will give priority to some areas without obvious school coverage so it isn't always as simple as distance, but can be. ToadMum's starting points are good ones.
Also whilst many Kent grammars go on just a pass, some don't. Dartford girls' grammar may be an option for you but it goes on score. Hartley is one of the defined parishes in their admission criteria so you would be considered as in-county and need a good score but not as stupendous as those outside of the defined parishes.
Mayfield grammar I don't know a huge amount about except having read the odd post and friend of a friend's DD goes there. They have different categories of admission and a high up category is postcode, one of which seems to be the Hartley DA3 postcode, DA1 & DA2 are in a lower category. I gather you can sit two tests, the Kent test as well as the school's own test, the latter being more a back up rather than an instead of the Kent test.
Also whilst many Kent grammars go on just a pass, some don't. Dartford girls' grammar may be an option for you but it goes on score. Hartley is one of the defined parishes in their admission criteria so you would be considered as in-county and need a good score but not as stupendous as those outside of the defined parishes.
Mayfield grammar I don't know a huge amount about except having read the odd post and friend of a friend's DD goes there. They have different categories of admission and a high up category is postcode, one of which seems to be the Hartley DA3 postcode, DA1 & DA2 are in a lower category. I gather you can sit two tests, the Kent test as well as the school's own test, the latter being more a back up rather than an instead of the Kent test.
Re: Which school to choose?
Thank you very much ToadMum & Fiona
