Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School

Ofsted

●Outstanding (2023) — Rated under the pre-September 2024 inspection system

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 21 March 2023, published 18 May 2023. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Oversubscribed — 1.67 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ▲The Rochester Grammar School 0.2 km · Good (2023) · previous system
• ▲The Thomas Aveling School 0.7 km · Good — confirmed 2022 · previous system
• ▲Holcombe Grammar School 1.5 km · Good — confirmed 2024 · previous system
• –St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School 1.5 km · No overall grade (2024)
• ●Fort Pitt Grammar School 1.6 km · Outstanding (2022) · previous system
• ▲The Victory Academy 2.3 km · Good (2023) · previous system

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.