2026 Year 7 Admission Information

Updated 02 March 2026

02 March 2026 - after you get your school offer:

To accept or reject your Year 7 place, please email admissions@judd.kent.sch.uk by the deadline of Monday, 16 March 2026, quoting your child's name and pupil ID (shown on your offer email). 

We will collect further information about you and your child, including proof of address in the coming weeks.  

Please do not call us; written confirmation via email is required. 

Admissions Important Dates for September 2026 intake

• National Offer Day - Monday 02 March 2026 (emails sent from KCC after 4pm and letters sent 1st class)
• Parental deadline for late applications, waiting list requests and acceptance/refusals - Monday 16 March 2026
• Deadline for lodging appeals - Monday 30 March 2026
• Reallocation Round - Thursday 23 April 2026

Admissions Important Dates for September 2027 intake

• Registration for 11+ testing opened on the KCC Website - 01 June 2026 and closes 01 July 2026
• Test date for pupils in Kent Primary schools - Thursday 10 September 2026
• Test date for pupils not in Kent Primary schools - Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September 2026
• Assessment decision sent to parents - Thursday 15 October 2026
• National closing date for application forms - Monday 02 November 2026
• Final date for acceptance of on time changes to application details - Monday 07 December 2026
• National Offer Day - Monday 01 March 2027 (emails sent from KCC after 4pm and letters sent 1st class)
• Parent deadline for late applications, waiting list requests and acceptance/refusals - Monday 15 March 2027
• Deadline for lodging appeals - Tuesday 13 April 2027
• Reallocation Round - Tuesday 27 April 2027

Admissions Update - 02 March 2026

On 02 March 2026 - 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 389 (2025: 371) with the outer area being 403 (2025: 398) (not all students on those scores were offered a place).

 The mean score of those offered places is as follows, values in brackets are for 2025 entry.

Area	English	Maths	Reasoning	Total
Inner	122.7 (127.95)	136.7 (130.18)	137.1 (131.34)	396.5 (389.48)
Outer	129.6 (138.18)	139.4 (135.55)	140.2 (136.36)	409.2 (410.09)

For those receiving offers, to accept or reject a place, please follow the instructions from the Offer Email you will receive from us on 5 March. Your Local Authority may also require you to respond (for KCC see: http://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/school-places/after-you-get-your-school-offer). The deadline for acceptance/refusal/waiting list request of places is Monday 16 March 2026.

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 2027 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 as part of the reallocation process.

To join the waiting list, follow the instructions sent to you by your Local Authority. The Kent deadline for waiting list requests is 16 March 2026 – a first round of waiting list offers will then be made on Thursday 23 April 2026.

Appeals

If you wish to appeal against the decision of the Governing Body to reject your application, please click on Joining Us / Appeals. There was a total of 1 appeal upheld in 2024, 7 appeals upheld in 2023, 4 upheld in 2022 and 8 upheld in 2021.

Where the Kent Test Score is greater than the lowest inner area score of 389 (403 for the outer area), 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 389, 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 Monday 16 March 2026, 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