Best place to live in Kent for Grammar school

[vik2017]

Hi,
This is my first question on this board....
and I wanted to know which is the best place to live in Kent and falls into Grammar catchment area and also if my son dont get to the Grammar at least will go to a very good comprehensive school.
Any suggestion will be appreciated even suggest to move to another place considering we both work in London.

Many thanks in advance...
Viki

Vik
I just read that BBC article about grammar schools you linked.
It you isn't it ?
You started this thread to justify your own experience onto your child.

Vik
I just read that BBC article about grammar schools you linked.
It you isn't it ?
You started this thread to justify your own experience onto your child.

I have noticed Talkin you have been a bit rude to the OP twice in this thread now !

As someone who on a post i started was jumped on from huge height i know how it feels when you are fighting against a high tide !

How have you come to the conclusion , that the OP was that Grammar school girl from 2003 (2014)...

I have noticed Talkin you have been a bit rude to the OP twice in this thread now !
I have questioned her preconceptions that is all.

How have you come to the conclusion , that the OP was that Grammar school girl from 2003
That would be telling.

In that case OP why not get a job in Birmingham and send your DS to one of the King Edward schools or Bishop Vesey's Grammar.

OP forget Bexley, I have the answer - beautiful Canterbury. 3 Grammar schools, 2 single sex (boys is partially superselective) and a co-Ed Grammar. If you need to fall back on indies you have the non-selective choices of Kent College and St Edmunds. And the cherry on the cake is you have the choice of at least 2 prep schools who exist to get children through the Kent Test. Plus high speed rail link to London and a Waitrose. Have a glass of 🍷!

mountford100
Birmingham is a super selective area - thousands of dc compete for grammar schools that only take the top 10%. The 'comps' in Birmingham are also affected by the large number of faith schools and single sex girls' schools.

Mum
When you compare semi-selectives, which select 10%-25% of their co-hort on academic abiliy (Dame Alice Owens, Watford boys Grammar etc.) with grammars that select 100% of their intake, no I dont think grammar schools are anything special

Dame Alice Owens selects way more than 10-25% - there are only 22 'nearest school' places available, 65 academic places, 10 music aptitude places, siblings (bright siblings of course - many of whom would have passed the selective test as well but 'free up' the selective places as siblings), children of staff... Their academic profile is 156 high attainers, 37 middle attainers and 0 low attainers.
The Ever6 FSM rate is 3.9%.
Their website says they receive 500 applications for 65 extra Sixth Form places.

Bertrand
Our town is a good example. A grammar and a high school about a mile apart. All the local primary schools send roughly the same number of children to each proportionately

I doubt it - social housing/low cost housing tends to be concentrated in clusters, not conveniently spread out across the town. If you've got such a variation in the fsm at the secondary schools (2% + 40%) then you are likely to have several primary schools with a fsm rate of less than 10% and others with 25-50%.

And one of the Canterbury Grammars has among its alumni a chap who now calls himself Milo Yiannopoulos
Just who OP wants her kid mixing with

"And one of the Canterbury Grammars has among its alumni a chap who now calls himself Milo Yiannopoulos wink"
To be fair, they didn't let him come back to address the Politics Society......

But middle class naughty boys aren’t of the same concern to OP.

To be fair, they didn't let him come back to address the Politics Society.....
You just made me spit my ribena !!!!

@Ta1kinPeece: very clearly I would not get same property in Bexley for the same price

@BertrandRussell: Not at all, but this is one of the many articles written on same topic and this was just on the top hence, I posted it. Also, cannot judge a person from his/her age, they can be quite right about their opinion.

@roundaboutthetown, @ChocolateWombat: Very fortunate about this....can afford private and Bexley house however, private is not my first choice.

@mountford100: London commuting would be a nightmare then..

vik2017 private is not my first choice.

By the time you DC is old enough for secondary school you may well change your mind given the current problems with teacher retention and budet cuts faced by state schools.

@mountford100: Thanks for pointing out however, this kind of comments are well expected when your start a topic where all dont think as you do...

What are you doing for primary schools, vik? You'll need to find a house near a good primary as you can't take a test at state primary level to weed out the disruptive children. Or will you be starting out in private and moving to state?

where all dont think as you do

perhaps it's because some of us have actually been hrough the 11 plus and have DCs in secondary school.

I went on to check how long from Birmingham New Street to Euston expecting a time of about 1hr . To find the it is the same time of 2hr 4 Minutes taken from Manchester Piccadilly ! Strange.

I suppose it makes Crewe to Euston's 1hr 31 minutes look 'Super Sonic'

"Not at all, but this is one of the many articles written on same topic and this was just on the top hence, I posted it"
Because nothing supports a point of view quite as effectively as a 15 year old think piece written by a 16 year old......

@roundaboutthetown: For primary, comp is the best choice with no doubt....

For primary, comp is the best choice with no doubt

Why?

For primary, comp is the best choice with no doubt....
little village school or four form entry monster ?
Community, VA or CA ?

Bertrand When i first saw the name Milo Yiannopoulous , i thought you were referring to Yaris Varoufakis the Ex Greek Finance Minister !
Intrigued has to how he ended up at a Canterbury Grammar school, I put Millo Yiannopoulous in to find out who he was and that he has even been removed Breitbart for being to extreme !

However, he is a man of 'contradictions ' isn't he, I personally think he must be mentally ill.

"For primary, comp is the best choice with no doubt...."

That makes no sense at all.

Clearly vik is not of the school which says that your early education is of prime importance and should not be disrupted by the children who go on to disrupt your secondary education. Even though in the early years, these disruptive children can be particularly challenging (high numbers of speech and language delays, delayed social and emotional development, undiagnosed special needs, incontinence issues, holding the rest of the class back because they take up so much teacher time etc)...

@MumTryingHerBest, @Ta1kinPeece, @BertrandRussell: I knew this is coming so from my point of view DS should start with mix ability so will have this experience as well and if going to indi later then will see this as privilege but if DS starts with indi then even grammar will be sort of not so much good (consedring sending him to top of indi) for him. It is all about getting the falvour of every bit of society (all abilities). As I said my first choice would be grammar so if DS is already in indi then will not be much excited about grammar. But again, I am not talking about any comp but good one..