Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School

Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School
Address
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Old Dover Road

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CT1 3EW

Coordinates51°15′53″N 1°05′48″E / 51.2648°N 1.0966°E / 51.2648; 1.0966
Information
TypeVoluntary controlled grammar school
MottoMeliora Sequamur
(let us aim for better things)
Religious affiliation(s)Mixed
Established1881
Local authorityKent
Department for Education URN118840 Tables
OfstedReports
Chair of GovernorsAshley Kimble
HeadteacherPaul Pollard
Staff120+
GenderFemale (mixed Sixth form)
Age11 to 18
Enrolmentc. 1200
HousesAusten, Curie, Fonteyn, Johnson, Nightingale and Pankhurst
Colour(s)Navy, Burgundy, Gold and White     
PublicationLangton Scientist Journal
Websitehttp://www.langton.kent.sch.uk/

Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School is a single-sex voluntary controlled grammar school in Canterbury, Kent, England. The school originated in the Middle Ages as an educational foundation for children in Canterbury, emerging as a separate school for girls in 1881. Its brother school is Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys which resides a mere half mile away.

The school is selective in its intake, with prospective Year 7 students having to take the Kent Procedure for Entrance to Secondary Education, an eleven-plus examination. Around 180 new students are accepted every year at age 11, and around 60 students every year join the sixth form from other schools. 2010 saw the successful introduction of boys into the sixth form.

In the school's Ofsted inspection (July 2014) it was rated 'Good' overall.[1]

  1. ^ "Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School" (PDF). Ofsted.