Maidstone, Kent · Kent

Oakwood Park Grammar School

Publishes no qualifying score of its own, and its 2024-25 'Progress 8' figure is a self-computed internal estimate — DfE never calculated a real one for that cohort.

Oakwood Park sets no additional score requirement beyond Kent's county-wide Kent Test outcome, and its own admissions policy confirms oversubscription runs through care status, siblings, health need, Pupil Premium, then distance — never by ranking on score. Worth a specific caution on results: DfE could not calculate a real Progress 8 score for the 2024-25 cohort nationwide (the COVID-era baseline gap), so the school computed its own internal substitute using CAT4 test data from 2020 — a figure the school itself labels as not comparable to another school's official DfE Progress 8 score, and this site treats the same way.

Key facts

Gender: boys
Age range: 11-18
Region: South East
Local authority: Kent
Established: 1918
DfE URN: 136727
Website: https://www.opgs.org

Admissions

Admissions authority: The school sets its own test and criteria
Entrance test board: The Kent Test (PESE), commissioned county-wide by Kent County Council. GL Assessment is widely reported by tutoring sites as the current paper-setter, though not confirmed on an official KCC page during this research.partly verified
GL Assessment as paper-setter comes from secondary tutoring sites, not a direct Kent County Council statement found during this research.
Test format: The standard county-wide format: an English & Maths paper and a Reasoning paper (verbal and non-verbal), both multiple-choice/computer-marked, plus an unmarked writing task used only for borderline or appeal decisions. Oakwood's own admissions policy doesn't restate format specifics beyond confirming applicants must have sat the Kent Test.
Qualifying / pass mark: Not published by the school itself — eligibility is determined entirely by the county-wide Kent Test outcome set annually by Kent County Council (a recent cycle: aggregate 332, no component below 108, not independently re-confirmed against KCC's own site during this research). The school publishes no last-place-offered score of its own.partly verified
The 332/108 Kent-wide figure wasn't freshly re-confirmed against Kent County Council's own site during this research (automated access was blocked).
Superselective?: No

Catchment & priority criteria

No defined catchment area. Distance is used only as a lower-priority oversubscription criterion and final sorting mechanism, not a qualifying boundary.

Children with an EHCP or Statement of SEN naming the school
Looked-after, previously looked-after, and internationally-adopted previously-looked-after children
Current family association — a sibling attending at the time of admission
Health and special access reasons, evidenced by written professional support
Children in receipt of Student Premium (Free School Meals at any point in the last 6 years)
Nearness of home to school, by straight-line distance
Tie-break for the final place: random allocation

Results

Year	Attainment 8	GCSE 5+ Eng & Maths	Progress 8	A*–A	A*–B
2024	64.82 (school-reported)	95.51% (school-reported)	+0.56 — the school's own provisional estimate ('using 4Matrix share and compare benchmarks until confirmed national data from DfE'); this cohort predates the COVID-era gap so a real DfE figure should exist, but wasn't independently re-confirmed during this research	29.95%	53.00%
A-level: 29.95% grades A-A, 53.00% grades A-B (school-reported).
2025	68.9 (DfE-confirmed; the school's own provisional pre-validation document separately showed 68.37)	93.0% (DfE-confirmed; school's provisional document showed 92.45%)	Not calculated by DfE — no KS2 baseline data for this cohort nationally. The school computed its own internal substitute (+1.12) from CAT4 tests sat in October 2020, explicitly labelled by the school as 'purely internal' and not DfE-reported — not comparable to another school's official Progress 8 score.	31.9%	66.0%
A-level: 31.9% grades A-A, 66.0% grades A-B (school-reported, not independently cross-checked against DfE's 16-18 data this research).

Ofsted

Rating: Good — but the most recent visit (May 2024) was an ungraded Section 8 inspection that only confirmed the school 'continues to be good'; Ofsted's report states this was the first ungraded inspection since the substantive graded Good judgement of February 2019 (which itself followed an Outstanding rating in December 2011).
Date: 1-2 May 2024 (substantive graded judgement dates to 6-7 February 2019)
Report: Read the full report

Sources

1. DfE Get Information About Schools — URN, status, gender, LA — https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/136727
2. School's own determined Admissions Policy 2026 — https://opgs.org/_site/data/files/files/policies/statutory/1B14D958FED3039DE682FEDBC2A5A26B.pdf
3. Ofsted report, inspected 1-2 May 2024 (ungraded, confirming 2019 Good judgement) — https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50249052
4. School's own history page — founded 1918 — https://www.opgs.org/page/?title=History+of+the+School&pid=19
5. School's own Examination Results 2024-25 — https://www.opgs.org/attachments/download.asp?file=176&type=pdf
6. School's own Examination Results 2023-24 — https://www.opgs.org/attachments/download.asp?file=159&type=pdf
7. DfE Compare School Performance — 2025 GCSE results — https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/136727/oakwood-park-grammar-school/secondary

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