Wilmington Grammar School for Girls is a selective girls' grammar school on Parsons Lane in Dartford, with around 1,163 pupils and a joint sixth-form offer through WG6. The school was founded in the late 1950s on a site with an older local history, including The Orchard and the former Wilmington Workhouse. Its modern identity is captured in the motto In Pursuit of Excellence and the REACH values: Respect and Resilience, Equality, Achievement, Community, and Honesty and Integrity.
The academic offer is broad and practical. Wilmington's learning and subject pages point to knowledge organisers, careers provision, and departments spanning art, business studies, drama, economics and the core academic subjects. The school says it wants students to think as future leaders in an evolving society, applying skills and knowledge to real-world situations. At sixth form, WG6 is shared with Wilmington Grammar School for Boys and offers a wide range of A-level and equivalent courses, alongside support services and enrichment.
School life is strongly community-facing. The school describes a happy and harmonious community that respects individuals and celebrates the diversity of students and staff. Its enrichment and blog material shows the rhythm of day-to-day life: Culture Day, celebratory assemblies, student achievements, extracurricular activity and a deliberate emphasis on recognising different forms of success. The site itself mixes old and new buildings, which the school calls one of its special features.
Year 7 admission has 180 published places and is coordinated through Kent County Council. Applicants need to be assessed suitable for grammar-school education through the Kent selection process before Wilmington's criteria are applied. The oversubscription order includes looked-after and previously looked-after girls, siblings at either Wilmington grammar school, children of staff, governor places linked to exceptional Kent Test mathematics performance within five miles, priority areas and pupil-premium categories, then distance. Public benchmarks record Ofsted Good in November 2022, +0.76 Progress 8, 96.6% grade 5+ in English and maths and 12.4% AAB or better at A level.
