Maidstone Grammar School A GSG School
- Maidstone Grammar School
Barton Road
Maidstone
Kent
ME15 7BT - Head: Mr M Tomkins
- T 01622 752 101
- F 01622 753 680
- E school@mgs-kent.org.uk
- W www.mgs.kent.sch.uk
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in West Kent and East Kent
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Kent
- Pupils: 1,407; sixth formers: 357 (269 boys; 88 girls)
- Religion: None
- Open days: Open Evening for Year 7 entry: October; Sixth Form Open Evening: January
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 15th January 2019
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 26th September 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Practicals rule the roost in the science department – students told of dissecting hearts, throwing water on a chip pan fire and exploring alkaline metals. Even in normal classrooms, we noticed pupils absorbed in their lessons – who can blame them with a history lesson that had pupils on their edge of their seats with toe-curling Stalin stories and an English lesson with King Lear taught through role play? Asked what stands out most about the school, nearly every parent answered us with the same two words – ‘pastoral care.’ There is a strong sense of order and structure and the school is no soft touch when it comes to discipline. But pupils assured us…
What the school says...
Entrance tests set by local LEA (Maths, VR and non VR).
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2012, Mark Tomkins BSc NPQH PGCE (40s). Grew up in Cheltenham, where he was educated at Arle Comprehensive and Pate's Grammar. Read maths at Birmingham, returning to Cheltenham to do his PGCE. Kent boys’ grammars have almost exclusively been his bread and butter, the first nine years spent at Dartford Grammar and latterly six years at The Judd, Tonbridge as deputy head.
Very tall and self-assured, he could easily appear intimidating. Instead, he is well liked by all and widely considered to have re-energised the school. ‘Very open-minded, I can’t commend him highly enough,’ said a parent, while another told us that he’s ‘very much in charge, with a great vision, but a real listener too.’ Pupils say he ‘know our names’ and ‘is always chatty.’
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Interpreting catchment maps
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Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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