Admissions Important Dates for September 2025 intake

• Registration for 11+ testing opened on the KCC Website - 3rd June 2024 and closed 1st July 2024
• Test date for pupils in Kent Primary schools - Thursday 12th September 2024
• Test date for pupils not in Kent Primary schools - Saturday 14th September 2024
• Assessment decision sent to parents - Thursday 17th October 2024
• National closing date for application forms - Thursday 31st October 2024
• Final date for acceptance of on time changes to application details - Friday 12th December 2024
• National Offer Day - Monday 3rd March 2025 (emails sent from KCC after 4pm and letters sent 1st class)
• Parental deadline for late applications, waiting list requests and acceptance/refusals - Monday 17th March 2025
• Deadline for lodging appeals - Monday 31st March 2025
• Reallocation Round - Thursday 24th April 2025

Admission Information

Entry to The Judd School is through the Kent assessment procedure. Your son must have gained a "Grammar assessment" in the Kent PESE (11+) test to be considered for a place here at The Judd School.

Our Admission Criteria for September 2025 can be found on the 2025 Admission Arrangements page of this website. Please note the Supplementary Information form should only be completed  if your son is in receipt of Free School Meals or if he is eligible for pupil premium.

Once applications are received by Kent County Council via completed SCAFs (Secondary Common Application Forms), we are asked to rank the scores of those who have listed the Judd School in any preference position. Again, for this year we will be ranking two lists (Inner/Outer area) first by score and then distance, with 5 places for the Inner area for Free School Meal (FSM) student and if any of those places are unallocated they will be available to students eligible for pupil premium.

Our ranked list is then returned to KCC who make offers on our behalf on National Offer Day, Friday 1st March 2024.

When receiving queries from parents regarding the cut-off score for The Judd School this year, we can only refer to historic figures. For your information, therefore, only as a guide please find the historical information at the bottom of this page. There are usually around 20 places allocated from waiting list(s), so it is well worth going on the list(s) if you are just below the initial cut-off score.

We do not yet know what score will be required for entry to our school; furthermore, we would suggest that no one is in a good position to declare authoritatively on the matter. What is clear is that the 'equal preference' scheme works well, and so we encourage parents to order the schools on their SCAF in their genuine preference order.

Should you not be successful in securing a place at the school, you can find out more information about the appeals process in the Appeals section of this website.

Admissions Update

30 April 2024

A total of 17 offers were made in reallocation on the 25th April. The cut-off score for our inner area was 380 with the outer area being 408.

On 1 March 2024 180 offers were made. The number of places available for the inner area is 157; the outer area is 23. The cut-off score for our inner area was 383 (2021: 381) with the outer area being 412 (406) not all students on those scores were offered a place.

The mean score of those offered places is as follows:

Area	English	Maths	Reasoning	Total
Inner	130.94 (130.6)	132.97 (132.6)	135.73 (138)	399.65 (401.2)
Outer	135.59 (138.9)	138.48 (137.5)	139.77 (138.9)	413.72 (415.3)

For those receiving offers, to accept or reject a place, please follow the instructions from the Offer Email you will receive from us on 26 April.

The deadline for acceptance/refusal/waiting list request of places is Thursday 9 May 2024.

Waiting List

If you have applied for a place at The Judd School and have not been successful you may join the waiting list (regardless of where you placed Judd on your preference form), provided you have a selective score on the Kent Test.

The waiting list for Year 7 entry will be maintained until the end of January 2025 and will be re-ranked every time a student joins or leaves the list. In each of the last two years around 20 offers were made from the waiting list – the majority in late April (none can be made prior to 26 April). 

To check where you are on the waiting list or to join the waiting list contact admissions@judd.kent.sch.uk

Appeals

If you wish to appeal against the decision of the Governing Body to reject your application, please click on Joining Us / Appeals. There were a total of 7 appeals upheld in 2023, 4 appeals in 2022 and 8 appeals upheld in 2021.

Where the Kent Test Score is greater than the lowest inner area score of 383, parents do not need to persuade the panel that your son is of the academic standard for the school. In such cases, the School Admission Appeals Code only requires the panel to balance your case (why this is the best school to meet your child’s needs) against the school’s own prejudice to education case.  However, where the score is less than 383, parents will need to persuade the panel that your child is of the standard for the school. 

If you need any clarification, please contact the appeals clerk: clerk@educationappeals.com

Late Applications

To make a late application you should contact your Local Authority if doing so prior to 15 March 2024, the deadline for being considered in the Reallocation round. Thereafter, late applications should come directly to the school – contact admissions@judd.kent.sch.uk.

Jonathan Wood

Headteacher