Community school · Kent
Dover Grammar School for Girls
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Girls
- Selective (11+)
- Sixth form
- Term dates set by the council
Term dates
Kent council sets the term dates for this school. See all Kent dates, taken from the council's own page.
2026/27
2027/28
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Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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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, 178 families put this school as their first choice, and 140 places were offered. 137 of the families who put it first got a place (77%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 140 | 178 | 77% |
| September 2025 | 140 | 181 | 74% |
| September 2024 | 140 | 166 | 82% |
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 Kent Test, a shared test used by 31 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.
This school also runs its own entrance test as well as the Kent Test. Contact the school for its test details.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 4 March 2025. No overall grade was given (Ofsted stopped giving one in September 2024).
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form
- Good
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
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 847 (capacity 885)
- Gender
- Girls
- Admissions
- Selective (entrance test)
- Phone
- 01304206625
- Address
- Frith Road, Dover, CT16 2PZ
- Website
- dggs.kent.sch.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.