Dartford Grammar School A GSG School
- Dartford Grammar School
West Hill
Dartford
Kent
DA1 2HW - Head: Mr Julian Metcalf
- T 01322 223039
- F 01322 291426
- E [email protected]
- W www.dartfordgr…rschool.org.uk/
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in Kent
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Kent
- Pupils: 1,535; sixth formers: 622
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 6th December 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Pupils are sincere, focused, humble and clearly very much at home with their like-minded peers. They tell us the IB Middle Years (MYP) programme in years 7-9 provides ‘constant challenge’ and parents approve that it ‘keeps them on their toes’. Dartford Grammar was the first school in the UK, and the first state school globally, to introduce this programme and during our visit they were hosting a conference for MYP UK schools to share good practice. Ongoing drive on English oracy skills – and we certainly found pupils articulate beyond their years. The idea is to...
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
International Baccalaureate: middle years - middle Years is a programme for ages 11-16.
School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2021, Julian Metcalf. Educated at Sevenoaks School where he studied the IB, followed by an English and history degree at Leeds University and master’s in English lit. A PGCE at King’s College London and PPD at Cambridge paved the way to his teaching career which began here in 1998 when his 14 year tenure saw him join as NQT (he still teaches sixth form) and leaving as assistant head before leaving to take on roles including programme co-ordinator for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSA) and UK associate manager for the IB. Thence to Skinners’, where he was deputy head for seven years before returning here.
Parents say he is ‘friendly, fair and supportive’, ‘informed’ and ‘well-networked’. Pupils respect him, saying he is ‘ambitious for us and always trying...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
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.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Spring Grove School | 2024 | 1 |
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