Admissions Information

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is a selective Grammar school. The school will admit girls into years 7 – 11 and girls and boys into years 12 and 13.

Year 7 Admissions

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls complies with the Co-ordinated Admission Scheme, which is administered by Kent Local Authority. Detailed information about the school is available in the prospectus.

Girls are normally admitted at age 11. All students must have gained a selective place through the Kent PESE (Procedure for Entry into Secondary Education). Details of the Kent PESE are available from the Kent County Council booklet ‘Admission to Secondary School in Kent’. There is no guarantee of a place to applicants who meet the over-subscription criteria.

The Published Admissions Number is 210.

Before the application of oversubscription criteria, children with a statement of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or Education, Health and Care Plan, which names the school, will be admitted. As a result of this the Published Admission Number will be reduced accordingly.

When the school is oversubscribed, the following oversubscription criteria will be used in the order shown:

• Eligible girls who are looked after and previously looked after children:
  A looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989).
• Children previously in Care outside of England:
  Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation, or any other provider of care whose sole purpose is to benefit society.
• Students in receipt of Pupil Premium:
  A student is eligible for Pupil Premium where they have been registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years. This does not include students who have only been eligible to receive Universal Infant Free School Meals. Parents wishing to apply under this criterion must ensure that they complete the attached Supplementary Information Form and return it to the school by 31st October in the year of application. Parents must also complete an application (via online 3 or paper Secondary Common Application Form) naming the school, otherwise their child cannot be considered for a place.
• Governor places:
  The top places for 30 students ranked in order of the TOTAL aggregate score in the Kent 11+ assessment tests.
• Current family association:
  This is defined as a sister or brother attending either Maidstone Grammar School for Girls or Maidstone Grammar School when the child starts. In this context brother or sister means children who live as brother or sister in the same house, including natural brothers or sisters, adopted siblings, stepbrothers or sisters and foster brothers and sisters.
• Distance from home to school:
  Determined by straight line using NLPG data, with those eligible girls living nearest being accorded highest priority. The school uses measurements provided by the local authority and further information on how distances are calculated is available in the ‘Admission to Secondary School in Kent’ booklet provided by the local authority.
• If more than one applicant has equal eligibility for the last available place at the school, the names will be issued a number and drawn randomly to decide which child should be given the place. In the event that the final place offered from a ranked list falls to a pupil of a multiple birth, the school will offer a place of each of these girls who have met the over subscription criteria.