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Year 7 Admissions
As a grammar school, Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys can only consider applicants who have been assessed as suitable for selective education through Kent County Council’s 11+ process, also known as the Kent Test. The Kent test score is not relevant for admission to TWGSB, see here. Our published admission number (PAN) is 300 – this comprises 210 places at the Tunbridge Wells campus and 90 at Sevenoaks.
If you wish your son to be considered for a place at TWGSB you will need to name us as a preference on your Secondary Common Application Form (SCAF). You can name us only once on the form. Although we have two campuses (Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks), we are one school and parents are unable to specify the campus they would prefer on the SCAF. The completed SCAF must be returned directly to KCC by the given deadline.
For those students eligible for Pupil Premium, a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) is also required. This form needs to be returned directly to the TWGSB School Office by the given deadline, marked for the attention of Mrs McLaren. Please ensure evidence is included – this can be a letter from the primary school your son attends.
On National Offer Day KCC emails parents to inform them of the school place for their child and allocates 300 students to TWGSB. We then assign those students to one of our two campuses, based on a calculation provided by KCC of distance from the student's home to both sites. We will email parents their child's campus allocation within a week of National Offer Day. At that stage parents can opt to go on a waiting list if their child has not been allocated their preferred campus.
Further Information
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Read our comprehensive TWGSB Year 7 Admissions FAQs. PLEASE check these before ringing the school with a query as phone lines are always busy.
- Read pages 12–16 of the KCC Admissions Arrangements for 2025–26 (also linked below) for the 'Determined Oversubscription Criteria for entry into Year 7 for Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys'. (Abbreviated version available in our FAQs.)
- Visit the Secondary school places page on the KCC website
- Contact KCC's Admissions team if you need further clarification via email kentonlineadmissions@kent.gov.uk or telephone 03000 412121.
September 2025 Entry
| Useful Dates | Year 7 Application Process |
|---|---|
| Thursday 17th October 2024 | Kent Test results. |
| Thursday 31st October 2024 | Deadline for secondary school application (SCAF) to KCC. |
| Thursday 31st October 2024 | Deadline for return of SIF directly to TWGSB – relevant for Pupil Premium students only (see above). |
| Monday 3rd March 2025 | National Offer Day – parents emailed by KCC.* |
| Friday 7th March 2025 | Campus allocation emails sent by TWGSB (with online form link for those wishing to join waiting list for other campus). |
| Monday 17th March 2025 | Deadline for accepting/declining offer of a place from TWGSB. NOTE: If you are an out-of-county resident you must accept/decline with your borough council/Local Authority as well as with TWGSB, as the information is not shared with us automatically. |
| Monday 17th March 2025 | Deadline for joining TWGSB campus waiting list. |
| Thursday 27th March 2025 | Campus waiting list places offered to parents. |
| Monday 31st March 2025 | Deadline for lodging an appeal with KCC for a place at TWGSB. |
| Thursday 24th April 2025 | Reallocation offers made by KCC. TWGSB takes ownership of school waiting list from KCC. |
*If you have not been offered a place at TWGSB on National Offer Day and still wish to be considered please visit KCC's 'After you get your school offer' page find out about waiting lists and the appeals process. Please note, you must have named us originally on the SCAF to be considered for waiting list or appeal applications.
KCC Admissions Arrangements for 2025/26
KCC Secondary Admissions Process 2025/26
Supplementary Information Form