Dartford Grammar School

Children living in the school's designated area or linked primary school catchment

Source: LA admission policy PDF

1. Looked after — Looked after children and previously looked after children
2. Medical social — Children with exceptional medical/social needs, supported by professional evidence
3. Catchment or linked — Children living in the school's designated area or linked primary school catchment
4. Sibling — Siblings of children on roll at the school
5. Other qualified — All other qualifying children — tiebreaker: distance (straight line, closest first)

The Kent Test has two multiple-choice papers, each roughly an hour long: 1. English & Maths — split into two 30-minute sections: English (reading comprehension, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary) and Maths (Key Stage 2 curriculum up to the start of Year 6). 2. Reasoning — Verbal Reasoning (vocabulary, sequences, logic, analogies) and Non-Verbal/Spatial Reasoning (shapes, rotations, matrices, pattern recognition), combined into a single reasoning score. There is also an unmarked writing task (around 40 minutes including planning time). It isn't scored directly, but may be used by a local headteacher assessment panel for borderline cases. Note: the Kent Test is NOT the same as the Medway Test — Medway is a separate authority with its own different test (separate registration, different papers). Passing one does not qualify a child for the other area's schools (except Chatham Grammar, which accepts either).

Of the 281-student 2019/20 leaver cohort, sustaining a higher-education destination the following year. This is the last cohort the Department for Education published with an Oxbridge/Russell Group breakdown — these categories were discontinued as official accountability measures after this release, so a more recent figure does not exist.

Median price for the school's electoral ward, year ending March 2023 — a neighbourhood-level indicator, not the school's actual admissions catchment (catchments are often smaller than a ward or span parts of several).

Entry requirement: Minimum point score of 52 across best 8 subjects (DfE equivalence tables), with grade 5+ in English and Mathematics. IB route requires grade 7+ in proposed Higher-Level subjects (grade 8 in GCSE Maths if HL Maths is chosen).

Open evening: Sixth Form Information Event held Thursday 20 November 2025.

Source: school's own admissions page. Entry requirements are set independently by each school and reviewed annually — always confirm current-year figures directly with the school.