Tonbridge Grammar School
Girls grammar school in Tonbridge.
| Places in Year 7 | 180 |
| How places are allocated | By score |
| Own entrance test | No |
How you get a place
Places are ranked by test score. Living nearby does not help - distance is only used to break ties between equal scores. The score needed for an offer runs well above the county qualifying threshold.
- 135 Area places and 30 Trustee places are ranked by combined Kent Test score.
- 15 Pupil Premium places are ranked by distance rather than score.
- The school states plainly that it sets no tests of its own at this stage of entry.
Does it run its own test?
No. Entry is through the Kent Test only. Its reputation for being hard to get into comes from ranking Kent Test scores, not from setting an additional paper.
What score is needed?
Tonbridge Grammar School does not publish its cutoff scores, and neither does Kent County Council — no per-school figures are published for any Kent grammar. Numbers circulating on forums are unsourced, so we do not repeat them. What we can tell you is that at a school ranking by score, the bar sits well above the county threshold of 332.
Work out where a score lands
The Kent Test calculator turns practice paper marks into an estimated standardised score, adjusted for your child’s age, and checks it against the published threshold.
Source
Built from this school’s determined admissions arrangements for 2027/28: admissions criteria. Always check the school’s own site before applying — arrangements change annually and deadlines are unforgiving.