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Fort Pitt Grammar School

Chatham · Mixed (co-educational) · ages 11 to 18

Official record: Get Information About Schools (URN 136337)

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Overview

Address: Fort Pitt Hill, Chatham, Kent, ME4 6TJ
Status: Open
Admits: Mixed (co-educational)
From the school’s admissions policy: Took boys into Year 7 for the first time in September 2026; older year groups are girls only.
Age range: 11 to 18
Number of pupils: 1,009
Capacity: 1,027
Eligible for free school meals: 14.2%
Sixth form: Yes
School type: Academy converter
Religious character: None
Trust: BEYOND SCHOOLS TRUST
Local authority: Medway

Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026 · Source: Desk research (cited public sources) (get-information-schools.service.gov.uk), last checked 31 October 2026 · Source: Schools' own admission arrangements (fortpitt.co.uk), last checked 2 November 2026

Admissions and the 11+

Admissions policy: Selective (grammar school)
Selection in this area: Fully selective area30% of Year 7 places offered in Medway for September 2026 were at selective schools (DfE applications and offers). We class an area as fully selective at 25% or more. Confirm with the local authority's admissions guide.
Entrance test: Medway Test
Qualifying score: minimum score 482 to be assessed suitable for grammar (492 the year before) (2025 entry)
Catchment area: For September 2026 entry, after looked-after children, siblings and children of staff, priority goes to children living within 2 miles of the school, then to children living in these parishes (ranked by nearness): Allhallows, Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, Cooling, Cuxton, Frindsbury Extra (including Wainscott and Upnor), Halling, High Halstow, Hoo St Werburgh (including Chattenden), St James Isle of Grain, St Mary Hoo and Stoke. Children must pass the Medway Test.
Children from outside the catchment: Sometimes: For September 2026 entry, children who live more than 2 miles away and outside the named parishes are considered last, by nearness of home (shortest safe walking route). In 2026 the furthest offer made to anyone was 3,321.21 metres (Medway Council).

Applications and offers for Year 7

For September 2026 entry, 1,139 applicants named this school (238 as their first choice) for 149 places. 2 of 149 offers went to children living outside Medway.

Applications and offers by September intake
Intake	Places offered	Applicants	First choice	First choices per place	Offers to children outside Medway
Sept 2026	149	1,139	238	1.6	2
Sept 2025	150	669	198	1.3	6
Sept 2024	150	707	235	1.6	3
Sept 2023	150	577	168	1.1	15
Sept 2022	144	526	145	1.0	27

Show all 13 years

Earlier intakes
Intake	Places offered	Applicants	First choice	First choices per place	Offers to children outside Medway
Sept 2021	150	593	182	1.2	17
Sept 2020	148	580	163	1.1	19
Sept 2019	150	534	151	1.0	2
Sept 2018	120	476	149	1.2	2
Sept 2017	120	559	189	1.6	2
Sept 2016	120	500	167	1.4	2
Sept 2015	112	480	129	1.2	18
Sept 2014	120	462	151	1.3	9

"Applicants" counts every family that listed the school as any preference, so it is higher than the number competing for each place. "Outside Medway" means a home in another local authority; it is not the school's catchment area. For grammar schools, offers also depend on the entrance test result.

Source: Secondary and primary school applications and offers (Department for Education), last checked 31 October 2026

Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026 · Source: Admissions research (cited public sources) (medway.gov.uk, fortpitt.co.uk), last checked 1 November 2026

Key dates for September 2027 entry

Test registration (Medway Test): 18 May 2026 to 12 June 2026
Test date: 15 September 2026, 16 September 2026, 19 September 2026, 20 September 202615-16 Sep for Medway primary pupils; 19 or 20 Sep for pupils from other schools at allocated centre. Registration opens 9am. Test and results dates from tuition guides, not confirmed on council page.
Results sent to families: 14 October 2026
Apply to your council (September 2027 entry): By 31 October 2026This date has passed: late applications go to your council and are usually considered after on-time ones.
National offer day: 1 March 2027Offers are sent on 1 March, or the next working day.
Open days: Not yet available
School opened (current registration): 1 November 2010

Unverified: test dates come from desk research (medium confidence). Confirm them with the council or test organiser. Sources: medway.gov.uk, atomlearning.com.

Statutory dates: School Admissions Code (Department for Education).

Guide to the Medway Test and its schools · How applying works

Source: Test dates research (cited public sources) (medway.gov.uk), last checked 1 November 2026 · Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026

Ofsted inspection

Inspected on 4 October 2022: overall Outstanding. Read the report ↗

Quality of education: Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding
Personal development: Outstanding
Leadership and management: Outstanding
Sixth form provision: Outstanding

Inspection history (2)

4 October 2022: School inspection, Outstanding · report
14 February 2012: Academy conversion letter · report

Source: Ofsted inspection reports, last checked 31 October 2026

Exam results

GCSE results 2025/26 (provisional)

GCSE results compared with national averages
Measure	This school	Selective schools in England	All state schools in England
Attainment 8Average grade across 8 GCSE-level subjects, doubled for English and maths (maximum 90).	63	72.1	46.2
Grade 5 or above in English and maths	79.7%	93.7%	46.3%
Grade 7 or above in English and maths	24.3%	57.7%	14.2%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths	95.3%	98.3%	64.8%
Progress 8Not published for most schools in recent years, because primary school tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.	–	–	–

Attainment 8 over time: 66.5 (2023/24) → 65.9 (2024/25) → 63 (2025/26).

148 pupils took GCSEs. Results reflect a selective intake: compare grammar schools with each other rather than with all schools.

Source: Key stage 4 performance (GCSE results) (Department for Education), last checked 31 October 2026

How to get there

Postcode: ME4 6TJ
Map location: 51.38042, 0.514
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Telephone: 01634842359

Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026

Official links and documents

School website: www.fortpitt.co.uk
Official register record: Get Information About Schools (URN 136337) ↗
Admissions policy document: Not yet available
Further reading: Wikipedia ↗

Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026

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Data sources: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.; Desk research (cited public sources) (UK School Map), Facts compiled from the public sources linked on each field; Schools' own admission arrangements (Each school (linked on the item)), Facts taken from each school's published admission arrangements, linked on the item; Admissions research (cited public sources) (UK School Map), Facts compiled from the public sources linked on each item; Test dates research (cited public sources) (UK School Map), Facts compiled from the public sources linked on each item

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