Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, usually MGGS, is a selective girls' grammar school with a mixed sixth form and a current roll of about 1,274. Its roots go back to 1888, when the school opened at Albion Place after being founded with funds from the Wardens of Rochester Bridge. The school now describes itself as a forward-thinking community with a tradition of excellence, where happiness, opportunity, enrichment and inspiration matter alongside results.
MGGS has a strong sense of its own educational history. Boys joined the sixth form in 1995; Buckland House opened in 2012 for sixth-form, English, media, art and social sciences use; and a new sports hall opened in 2016. The curriculum has continued to change too, with computing, media studies and dance named by the school as modern additions. MGGS is also an Advanced Thinking School and was appointed as a National Centre for Computing Education Computing Hub in 2019.
The main curriculum is built around academic excellence with social awareness and responsibility. In the sixth form, students usually study three or four A levels alongside Sixth Form Extra, with options such as EPQ, Spoken English and Sports Leadership. Current A-level choices include sciences, mathematics and further mathematics, computer science, economics, politics, psychology, sociology, media, dance, drama, music, design technology, philosophy, languages and the core humanities.
For Year 7 entry, the published admission number is 210 and admission is through the Kent Test. Eligible girls are then considered under MGGS criteria, including looked-after status, pupil premium, current family association with MGGS or Maidstone Grammar School, and straight-line distance. Recent official benchmarks show Ofsted Outstanding, Progress 8 of +0.57, 98.8% grade 5+ in English and maths and 12.8% AAB or better at A level.
