Chatham Grammar

Term dates

Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Medway council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Medway's full dates

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 185 families put this school as their first choice, and 150 places were offered. 98 of the families who put it first got a place (53%). More families put it first than there were places.

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

11+ entrance test

This school uses The Medway Test, a shared test used by 5 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.

Accepts children assessed as suitable for grammar school through either the Medway Test or the Kent Test.

How shared 11+ tests work

Ofsted inspection

Short (ungraded) inspection, 18 October 2023: School remains Good.

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Academy

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

948 (capacity 976)

Gender

Mixed

Academy trust

THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT ACADEMIES TRUST

Admissions

Selective (entrance test)

Phone

01634851262

Address

Rainham Road, Chatham, ME5 7EH

Website

chathamgrammar.org.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports