Parents will find out in the next few days which senior school their child has been allocated from September.

Anyone who registered online with Kent County Council will be able to log on and view their school place from 4pm on Monday. Posted allocations are due to arrive on Tuesday morning.

This year’s allocation is the first under a new system where the Kent Test was sat in September, which meant parents knew if their children had passed the exam before applying for a school place.

Just under 48 per cent of children in Maidstone, Malling and the Weald who took the Kent Test passed the exam.

Figures revealed under the Freedom of Information act showed that 1,547 children from schools in these areas took the test – which determines if a child qualifies for a grammar school place – and 734 passed.

Across Kent 5,137, or 46 per cent of 11,059 who took it, passed the exam.

Once again Roseacre Junior School in Bearsted had the highest number of pupils both sitting (88) and passing (53) the exam.

Mark Dance, Kent County Council’s cabinet member for education, operations, rescources and skills, said Kent had a range of outstanding schools of various types.

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