Please ask for: Kelly Leeson
FOI Reference: 15044233
Phone: +443000415985
Email: 
xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date: 29 July 2020
 
Dear Mr Chaplin
 
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 
(FOIA) 2000 relating to secondary schools in the CT5 area. Please see the response 
provided below and the attached information/spreadsheet in answer to your request.  
(a) Which secondary school did parents in the CT5 postcode choose as their first 
choice school for start September 2020. If this could be broken down into 
numbers for individual schools please. 
The table below shows the number of 1st preferences named for schools by children 
living in the CT5 post code area in the 2020 secondary admissions process. Where the 
number of 1st preferences for an individual school are equal to or less than 5 they have 
been combined into an ‘Other schools’ group to reduce the risk of an individual being 
able to identify their own data which would constitute a breach of the Data Protection 
Act 2018.  Therefore, this information is exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) of 
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 on the grounds that it is personal information.
School name
1st preferences
Barton Court Grammar School
29
Canterbury Academy
11
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar 
School
7
Herne Bay High School
27
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar 
School
39
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar 
School
21
Simon Langton Grammar School 
for Boys
22
St Anselm's Catholic School
6
Whitstable School
201
Other schools
11
374
 

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(b) what are the current on roll numbers for year 7 in each of the schools listed 
above?
Please see the attached data.
If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied with 
legislation, you have 40 working days from the date of this response to ask for a review. 
You can do this by following our complaints process; details can be found at this link 
https://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/complaints-and-compliments#tab-10 on our 
website. Please quote reference 15044233.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can appeal to the Information 
Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 
Details of what you need to do, should you wish to pursue this course of action, are 
available from the Information Commissioner’s website http://ico.org.uk/concerns 
Yours sincerely
Kelly Leeson
Information Access Officer
 

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