Chatham, Kent · Medway

Fort Pitt Grammar School

Admits its first boys this September, alongside two other Medway grammar schools converting to co-education on exactly the same timetable.

A Medway school, governed by Medway Council's separate Medway Test rather than the Kent Test used elsewhere in the county. Right now is a pivotal moment for Fort Pitt: after DfE approval, it admits boys into Year 7 for the first time this September (2026), alongside Holcombe Grammar School and Chatham Grammar School, which are converting to co-education on exactly the same timetable — three Medway grammar schools moving together. Existing girls in Years 7-11 are unaffected; boys join only the incoming Year 7 cohort and the mixed intake will age up year by year.

Key facts

Gender: girls
Age range: 11-18
Region: South East
Local authority: Medway
DfE URN: 136337
Website: https://www.fortpitt.co.uk

Admissions

Admissions authority: The school sets its own test and criteria
Entrance test board: The Medway Test, a separate 11+ system from the Kent Test used elsewhere in the county, commissioned by Medway Council. GL Assessment's branding appears on Medway Council's own official Test Familiarisation Booklet.
Test format: Three timed, multiple-choice, computer-marked papers: English (30 minutes: comprehension, punctuation, grammar), Mathematics (50 minutes), and Reasoning (45 minutes: spatial/non-verbal plus verbal reasoning), combined as English×2 + Maths×2 + Reasoning×1 for a maximum weighted score of 700. Medway Council's own 2023 familiarisation booklet describes no separate writing task — this conflicts with several tutoring sites that claim a 40-minute creative writing component, possibly confusing Medway's format with Kent's.sources conflict
Medway Council's own familiarisation booklet describes three papers only, with no writing task; several tutoring sites claim a 40-minute creative writing component exists. Worth confirming directly with Medway Council before publishing either way.
Qualifying / pass mark: The Medway-wide minimum weighted score, recalibrated annually: 481 for September 2026 entry (roughly the top 25% of the Medway cohort), 482 for September 2025 entry, 492 for September 2024 entry. The school adds no higher requirement of its own above this common threshold.
Superselective?: No

Catchment & priority criteria

No single mapped catchment, but two geographic priority tiers apply after care/sibling/staff-child criteria: children within 2 miles of the school (measured via Medway Council's GIS system), then children in one of 11 named parishes — Allhallows, Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, Cooling, Cuxton, Frindsbury Extra (including Wainscott/Upnor), Halling, High Halstow, Hoo St Werburgh (including Chattenden), St James Isle of Grain, St Mary Hoo, and Stoke. All other eligible children are ranked by shortest safe walking distance.

Children in public care (looked-after and previously looked-after children)
Siblings who will still be attending Fort Pitt at the time of admission
Children of staff employed 3+ years, or recruited to a skill-shortage vacancy
Children within 2 miles of the school
Children in one of 11 named parishes, ranked by nearness within that group
All other eligible children, by shortest safe walking distance
Tie-break at the final place: random draw

Results

Year	Attainment 8	GCSE 5+ Eng & Maths	Progress 8	A*–A	A*–B
2024	66.5 (secondary-sourced; could not independently confirm against DfE's live service, which only exposes the current published year)	88.8% (secondary-sourced)	+0.64 (confidence interval +0.41 to +0.87) — secondary-sourced, consistent across multiple aggregators	—	—
This cohort predates the COVID-era Progress 8 gap. A-level data for this specific year wasn't obtained — flagged as unconfirmed rather than estimated.
2025	65.9	85.0%	Not calculated — DfE's own page states explicitly it cannot calculate Progress 8 for the 2024/25 cohort nationwide, due to the COVID-cancelled KS2 baseline	~30% (partly-verified)	~60% (partly-verified)
EBacc entry 98.0%, EBacc average point score 6.39. A-level: average grade B- (38.06 points, best-3 methodology), progress score 0 (statistically average), retention 98.1% (England average 93.1%), 103 students with an A-level/IB entry. A-A (~30%) and A-B (~60%) percentages come from secondary aggregators, not confirmed directly against DfE's detailed grade-distribution page.

Ofsted

Rating: Outstanding, in every category: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision.
Date: 4-5 October 2022
Report: Read the full report

Sources

1. DfE Get Information About Schools — URN, status, gender, Medway local authority — https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/136337
2. School's own Determined Admissions Policy for September 2027 entry — https://www.fortpitt.co.uk/_files/ugd/a2c6ae_25041f923e9f4f58b227a6aa6430f446.pdf
3. School's own co-education transition page — https://www.fortpitt.co.uk/co-educational
4. Medway Council — About the Medway Test — https://www.medway.gov.uk/info/200137/schools_and_learning/1049/medway_test_11
5. Medway Council — Medway Test Familiarisation Booklet 2023 — https://www.medway.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/8176/medway_test_familiarisation_booklet_2023_-_for_printing.pdf
6. Ofsted report, inspected 4-5 October 2022 — https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50199063
7. DfE Compare School Performance — secondary results — https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/136337/fort-pitt-grammar-school/secondary
8. DfE Compare School Performance — 16-18 results — https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/136337/fort-pitt-grammar-school/16to18

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