West Kent Single Academy Trust Alliance
WKSATA combines six popular and successful West Kent Secondary Schools: Cranbrook School, Hadlow Rural Community School, Hillview School for Girls, Knole Academy, Tonbridge Grammar School and Trinity School.
A formal collaboration has been formed to enable these schools to work closely together.
The aim in doing so is to enable the schools to grow stronger together and provide an even higher level of educational provision for all their students, whilst retaining their distinctive identities.
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One of only a small number of state boarding schools in the UK. An academically excellent co-educational grammar school with an ‘emphasis on growing character as much as minds.’ Regularly oversubscribed with first choices for both intakes at Year 7 (intake of 90) and Year 9 (38 day and 52 boarding places)
A new Free School, set up in 2013 by advocates of a Christian education, it rightly describes itself as a ‘unique state-funded Christian school’. It gives admission priority to children of families who regularly attend a Christian Church for 50% of its places. Initially offering 120 places it rapidly expanded to 180 and is always oversubscribed.
Intake of 240 pupils. Academically successful. Has become very popular in the last few years and was the third most oversubscribed N/S school in Kent in 2021, turning away 102 first choices.
The smallest secondary school in Kent with an intake of just 75 pupils, specialising in its ‘commitment and vision to integrate land-based education into all areas of our school'. Regularly oversubscribed with first choices.
Amongst the diversity of schools in the Alliance, TGS is one of the most academically selective schools in Kent, highly oversubscribed for an intake of 180, turning away 143 grammar qualified girls in 2021.
Consistently amongst the highest performing non-selective schools in Kent. Regularly oversubscribed with first choices. Has had an excellent reputation for many years and had the second-highest non-selective staying on rate to the Sixth Form in Kent in 2020.