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My daughter is at a comprehensive in the north. She's quite bright (5s in her SATS) but Kent, especially Rochester, seems to be all grammar schools or comprehensives with not very good results. Will I be able to get her into a grammar school? She's already in Year 7 having started this September, but if all the grammar schools are full what will happen? Does she just have to go to the worst school around because it's got space?

Tumple generally yes. She will be offered a school that has a spare place and in many cases this could mean a less popular school.
BUT places do come up at Grammars and good schools as pupils move away from the area. Each Grammar has its own way of allocating these newly created places. You would need to ring and ask I guess. We're not in Kent but in the London area, the school tests any interested applicants as places become free and the highest score wins the place/s.

Hopefully someone who knows the area better can advise you on specifics but that's the general way that school transfers work.