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The Rochester Grammar School

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National rank

Rank last year

85.3^%

A-level

52^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Clare Brinklow

Attendance 96.5%

Gender of entry Girls

Send pupils* 0.9% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 1,171

Pupils on free school meals 11.7%

Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Our methodology

Results

Grade

A*/A

A*-B

85.3

Grade

9/8/7

Grade

Average IB points

What the school inspection says

“Pupils and students … respect the high standards that the school sets for them. They share leaders’ ambitions for them to thrive academically and succeed as global citizens. Pupils believe in the school motto, ‘Transforming life chances’, and speak passionately about how important the school has been in shaping their future. As one sixth-form student said, ‘Being here has built my confidence and helped to develop my character.’ Pupils respect each other’s differences and celebrate the school’s diverse community ... Behaviour in class and around the school is very calm, courteous and respectful.”

Inspection

2023

In detail *

Read the full report

*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

Founded in 1888, RGS was known until 2006 as Rochester Grammar School for Girls. It remains a girls’ school up to the sixth form, which is now mixed.
The school opened a second site to the south of Rochester in 1969 and completed its move there in 1990.
In 2023 Unicef awarded it a silver Rights Respecting Schools award for its commitment to children’s rights.
The sixth form has reverted to offering A-levels only from 2025-26, having previously switched to the International Baccalaureate.
Former pupils include the only salaried female official war artist Evelyn Dunbar and Alice Oseman, creator of the Heartstopper graphic novels which became a hit Netflix TV series.

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office@rochestergrammar.tsat.uk

Telephone

0333 360 2120

Website

rochestergrammar.org.uk

Address

Maidstone Road, Rochester, ME1 3BY

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