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The Skinners' School vs Wilmington Grammar School for Girls

Both are grammar schools in Kent, 20.1 miles apart. Side-by-side on official DfE, Ofsted and council admissions data.

Side by side

The Skinners' School Wilmington Grammar School for Girls
Phase Secondary Secondary
Gender Boys Girls
Pupils on roll 1,149 1,154
Free school meals 5% 6.3%
Ofsted rating Not published Good
Attainment 8 — 2025/26 72.7 65.3
11+ test board GL Assessment GL Assessment
Admission system pass/fail then criteria order (score doesn't give priority after passing) pass/fail + catchment (passing the test is a gate; living in the catchment area determines priority over score)
Places offered — 202627 160 180
First preferences per place — higher means more competition for a first-preference place 1.45 1.07

Qualifying scores

The Skinners' School

332 out of 423 (2026 entry)

Aggregate ≥332 with no single paper below 108. County-wide Kent Test threshold: reaching it earns a 'suitable for grammar school' assessment, NOT a place — each school then applies its own oversubscription criteria, and super-selective schools (The Judd School, Skinners', Tonbridge, Dartford) fill in score order well above the threshold.

Council source ↗

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls

332 out of 423 (2026 entry)

Aggregate ≥332 with no single paper below 108. County-wide Kent Test threshold: reaching it earns a 'suitable for grammar school' assessment, NOT a place — each school then applies its own oversubscription criteria, and super-selective schools (The Judd School, Skinners', Tonbridge, Dartford) fill in score order well above the threshold.

Council source ↗

Who gets priority

Where a school is oversubscribed, these are the first criteria applied, in order. This is usually what decides an application.

The Skinners' School

  1. Looked after and previously looked after children
  2. Up to 16 places for Pupil Premium boys in the West Kent Area (3 miles plus named parishes including Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks)
  3. Up to 108 places for other boys in the West Kent Area — first those 40+ marks above the Kent threshold, then other qualified boys; siblings, then sons of staff, then nearest first
  4. Up to 16 Governors' places for the highest Kent Test scorers in the West Kent Area not otherwise offered a place
  5. Up to 20 places for boys from outside the West Kent Area — 40+ above the threshold first; siblings, sons of staff, then nearest

Source: school admissions policy.

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls

  1. Looked after and previously looked after girls
  2. A sibling at this school or at Wilmington Grammar School for Boys
  3. Children of staff (two years' service, or a skill-shortage post)
  4. Up to 18 places for the girls with the best Kent Test maths scores living within 5 miles (recent intakes: 132–140)
  5. Girls within 1.5 miles, or in the listed parishes (including Dartford, Wilmington, Swanley, Hextable, Hartley, Longfield, Meopham, Kemsing, Otford and others) — Pupil Premium first
  6. Other Pupil Premium girls within 3 miles

Source: school admissions policy.

Choosing between them

The Skinners' School is a boys school and Wilmington Grammar School for Girls is a girls school, so for many families the starting point is which one can admit their child. The figures on this page are the published ones — they describe intakes and results, not what either school would be like for your child. The right choice depends on your family's own priorities and circumstances.

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