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  • Invicta Grammar School
    Huntsman Lane
    Maidstone
    Kent
    ME14 5DR
  • Head: Mrs Van Beales
  • T 01622 755856
  • F 01622 678584
  • E office@invicta.kent.sch.uk
  • W www.invicta.viat.org.uk/
  • A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
  • Read about the best schools in Kent
  • Boarding: No
  • Local authority: Kent
  • Pupils: 1,640 (1,597 girls, 43 boys); sixth formers: 388 (345 girls, 43 boys)
  • Religion: Non-denominational
  • Open days: June and October
  • Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
  • 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 16th April 2024
  • Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 20th September 2012
  • Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

What says..

Atmosphere is calm and industriousness. Ambitious too, as reflected by a ‘Try and Stop Us!’ slogan emblazoned on a bold art piece outside the head’s office. The school’s modern buildings have a clear wow-factor. Impressive transition (which can start from year 5) described as ‘second to none’ by parents, includes the opportunity to ...

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What the school says...

Entrance tests set by local LEA (Maths, VR and non VR).

Converted to an academy 2011.

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What The Good Schools Guide says

Headteacher

Since September 2021, Van Beales, who joined Invicta in 2005 as an NQT maths teacher, then became assistant head, deputy head and head of upper school – a ‘steep learning curve’. She is also executive head of SST (School of Science and Technology), a new school within the Valley Invicta Academies Trust (the model of which she championed after a visit to a school in Singapore).

Educated in Vietnam, followed by MBA at City University London. A meeting with a friend for a quick lunch landed her an unexpected gig as a BBC World Service presenter where she learned to be ‘quick-thinking, calm and clear’ – skills that are also evident in her leadership style here. After a brief stint in PR for IBM, she decided on teaching as a practical...

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Who came from where

Who goes where

Special Education Needs

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.

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Who came from where


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