If you're planning to apply for Brompton Academy, you must register your child to sit the fair banding test.
This includes children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
The school has its own fair banding test so you'll need to register your child with the school if you're considering applying for Brompton Academy. Registration details will be available on the school website.
Medway Council is not involved in fair banding tests. You’ll need to contact the school directly for more information.
Test dates
The fair banding test usually takes place during September and October each year.
Please check Brompton Academy's website for further information.
Assessing your child’s ability level
Your child cannot pass or fail the test. It's there to assess a child’s level of ability and is used to help the school make sure they give school places to children of all abilities.
It’s also not the same as the Medway Test, which assesses if a child is grammar school ability.
Places allocated from each band
After the test children are put into bands based on their level of ability.
The academy will have five bands to make sure there's a spread of ability across the school and these are based on the national ability range decided by the National Foundation for Educational Research.
The academy will use its oversubscription criteria to give school places from each of the five bands.
If places become free in some bands they will be evenly filled by children falling into the next nearest bands. This could happen if a parent accepts offers of places at other schools, and there are no more children in those bands without a place.
If your child does not take the test
If your child has not taken the fair banding test, it's highly unlikely that they will be offered a place at Brompton Academy, even if they have a sibling at the school. Children who have not taken the fair banding test can only be considered for a place after all children who have taken the test.