Secondary 2026/27
We are in the process of updating the admissions criteria documents and they will be available as we receive them.
The voluntary-aided, foundation and academy schools listed below are their own admissions authority. This means that they decide their own admissions criteria. If you wish to comment on their arrangements contact the school's chair of governors.
About admission arrangements
The government has determined a new Admissions Code (2021) which includes a requirement for children who appear to an admission authority “to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted” to be given equal first priority in admission arrangements, alongside looked after children (LAC) and children who were previously looked after by English local authorities (PLAC). These children will be referred to as internationally adopted previously looked after children (IAPLAC).
This means that admission authorities were required to update their admissions arrangements to include this new priority. Where schools have provided KCC with updated documents, they have been included below. As this is a legal requirement of the new Admissions Code, IAPLAC will be provided equal priority in all schools’ oversubscription criteria even if the following wording does not appear in a school’s admission arrangements:
"Looked after children and previously looked after children: 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) at the time of making an application to a school.
A previously looked after child means such children who were adopted (or subject to child arrangements orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after and those children who appear to the admission authority 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 outside of England if they were in the care of or were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation, or any other provider of care whose sole or main purpose is to benefit society."
School admissions documents may not accessible to assistive technology (such as screen readers). You can request an alternative format.
Secondary school admissions
A - H
- Alkerden Church of England Academy (Secondary Phase) (PDF, 656.4 KB)
- Archbishop's School (PDF, 353.0 KB)
- Astor Secondary School (PDF, 347.9 KB)
- Aylesford School (PDF, 235.2 KB)
- Barton Court Grammar School (PDF, 265.7 KB)
- Barton Manor School (PDF, 362.2 KB)
- Bennett Memorial Diocesan School (PDF, 259.2 KB)
- Charles Dickens School (PDF, 160.6 KB)
- Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School (PDF, 429.6 KB)
- Cranbrook School (Boarding) (PDF, 2.0 MB)
- Cranbrook School (Day) (PDF, 2.3 MB)
- Dane Court Grammar School (PDF, 213.0 KB)
- Dartford Grammar School for Girls (PDF, 720.4 KB)
- Dartford Science and Technology College (PDF, 280.3 KB)
- Dover Grammar School for Boys (PDF, 270.6 KB)
- Duke of York Royal Military School (PDF, 360.4 KB)
- Ebbsfleet Academy (PDF, 168.9 KB)
- EKC Sheppey Secondary (PDF, 238.0 KB)
- Folkestone School for Girls (PDF, 308.1 KB)
- Gravesend Grammar School (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Hartsdown Academy (PDF, 358.3 KB)
- Herne Bay High School (PDF, 144.1 KB)
- Hillview School for Girls (PDF, 866.3 KB)
I - R
- Invicta Grammar School (PDF, 256.3 KB)
- John Wallis Church of England Academy (PDF, 245.3 KB)
- Judd School (PDF, 804.6 KB)
- Knole Academy (PDF, 392.2 KB)
- Leigh Academy Hugh Christie (PDF, 180.6 KB)
- Leigh Academy Minster (PDF, 135.0 KB)
- Leigh Academy Tonbridge (PDF, 253.2 KB)
- Leigh UTC (PDF, 206.3 KB)
- Lenham School (PDF, 617.2 KB)
- Longfield Academy (PDF, 240.7 KB)
- Maidstone Grammar School (PDF, 844.6 KB)
- Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (PDF, 336.5 KB)
- Malling School (PDF, 200.9 KB)
- Maplesden Noakes School (PDF, 321.5 KB)
- Mascalls Academy (PDF, 266.0 KB)
- Northfleet School for Girls (PDF, 137.1 KB)
- Northfleet Technology College (PDF, 257.4 KB)
- Norton Knatchbull School (PDF, 341.1 KB)
- Oakwood Park Grammar School (PDF, 260.5 KB)
- Orchards Academy (PDF, 161.5 KB)
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (PDF, 331.5 KB)
- Royal Harbour Academy (PDF, 213.1 KB)
S - W
- School of Science and Technology, Maidstone (PDF, 147.0 KB)
- Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys (PDF, 1014.8 KB)
- Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy (PDF, 156.4 KB)
- Sittingbourne School (PDF, 290.4 KB)
- Skinner's Kent Academy (PDF, 406.2 KB)
- Skinners School (PDF, 560.9 KB)
- St Anselm's Catholic School (PDF, 378.4 KB)
- St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover (PDF, 321.4 KB)
- St George's Church of England Foundation School, Broadstairs (Secondary) (PDF, 592.3 KB)
- St Gregory's Catholic School (PDF, 624.5 KB)
- St John's Catholic Comprehensive School (PDF, 751.3 KB)
- Stone Lodge School (PDF, 743.8 KB)
- Tonbridge Grammar School (PDF, 462.4 KB)
- Towers School and Sixth Form (PDF, 139.1 KB)
- Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Ursuline College (PDF, 356.8 KB)
- Valley Park School (PDF, 348.2 KB)
- Weald of Kent Grammar School (PDF, 204.7 KB)
- Whitstable School (PDF, 414.4 KB)
- Wilmington Academy (PDF, 233.1 KB)
- Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (PDF, 422.7 KB)
- Wye School (PDF, 146.1 KB)