Kent grammar schools

All 32, with how each one actually allocates places. That varies far more than most parents expect — at some, your score decides everything and where you live is irrelevant; at others it is the exact reverse.

The three things worth knowing first

Qualifying is not the same as getting in. Meeting the Kent Test threshold earns a grammar assessment. Around 45% of children who sit the test get one, and the schools are then oversubscribed.

5 schools rank purely by score. At Cranbrook School, Dartford Grammar School, Dartford Grammar School for Girls, The Judd School, Tonbridge Grammar School, distance is only a tie-break. Living next door does not help.

8 schools run their own test — and for all of them it is a second chance, not an extra hurdle. A child who misses the Kent Test threshold can still qualify this way. Conversely, the famously hard-to-enter schools — Judd, Skinners’, Tonbridge Grammar, both Dartford schools — set no test of their own at all.

All 32 schools

School	Town	Selection	Places
Highworth Grammar School	Ashford	By distance	210
The Norton Knatchbull School	Ashford	By distance	210
Dane Court Grammar School	Broadstairs	By distance	165
Barton Court Grammar School	Canterbury	By distance	150
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School	Canterbury	By distance	165
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys	Canterbury	Mostly distance, some by score	150
Cranbrook School	Cranbrook	Ranked by score	90
Dartford Grammar School	Dartford	Ranked by score	180
Dartford Grammar School for Girls	Dartford	Ranked by score	180
Dover Grammar School for Boysruns its own test too	Dover	By distance	150
Dover Grammar School for Girlsruns its own test too	Dover	By distance	140
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School	Faversham	By distance	180
The Folkestone School for Girlsruns its own test too	Folkestone	By distance	180
The Harvey Grammar Schoolruns its own test too	Folkestone	By distance	150
Gravesend Grammar School	Gravesend	By distance	210
Mayfield Grammar Schoolruns its own test too	Gravesend	Mostly distance, some by score	210
Invicta Grammar School	Maidstone	By distance	240
Maidstone Grammar School	Maidstone	Mostly distance, some by score	205
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls	Maidstone	By distance	210
Oakwood Park Grammar School	Maidstone	By distance	160
Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School	Ramsgate	By distance	180
Sir Roger Manwood's School	Sandwich	By distance	150
Borden Grammar Schoolruns its own test too	Sittingbourne	By distance	150
Highsted Grammar Schoolruns its own test too	Sittingbourne	By distance	150
The Judd School	Tonbridge	Ranked by score	180
Tonbridge Grammar School	Tonbridge	Ranked by score	180
Weald of Kent Grammar Schoolruns its own test too	Tonbridge	By distance	270
The Skinners' School	Tunbridge Wells	Mostly distance, some by score	160
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School	Tunbridge Wells	Mostly distance, some by score	174
Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys	Tunbridge Wells	By distance	300
Wilmington Grammar School for Boys	Wilmington	Mostly distance, some by score	180
Wilmington Grammar School for Girls	Wilmington	Mostly distance, some by score	180

Often listed as Kent grammars, but aren’t

Stone Lodge School — A non-selective 11-18 free school in Dartford, allocated entirely by distance. Kent County Council states this explicitly.
Dartford Science & Technology College — Non-selective. Appears on some widely-copied "Kent grammar" lists in error.

What’s next

Work out where a score lands with the Kent Test calculator.

Built from Kent County Council’s determined admissions arrangements for 2027/28. Last checked against primary sources on 20 August 2026. Each school page links to the document it was built from.