Chatham Grammar School for Girls ("CGSG") is a girls grammar school with academy status and a mixed sixth form. In September 2017 it became a member school of the University of Kent Academies Trust (UKAT), joined with another secondary school, Brompton Academy.Since 2019 it has described itself as Chatham Grammar School on its website and signage, reflecting the presence of boys on the sixth form roll. The current school The school is in Medway in Kent, on the Rainham Road (A2), just inside the parish of St Augustine, Gillingham on the Chatham – Gillingham boundary. In 2021 there were 800 students, (compared with a capacity of 976), including about 240 in the mixed sixth form, and 68 teaching staff. Mrs Wendy Walters was appointed principal in 2017, taking over from Mr Storey. The school holds an annual Christmas service in the St Augustine parish church, situated opposite the school. History Chatham County School for Girls (1907–1944) The school, then called the Chatham County School for Girls, was founded in January 1907. There was no school building and rooms were rented at the Chatham Technical Institute. In addition to headmistress Miss Constance Wakeman, the school had ten teachers, four of whom were part-time. The new school building, on the current site, was formally opened in February 1913. The school taught girls aged 8 to 18 years, those under 11 in a separate preparatory department. There was an entrance examination and, although maintained by the local authority, fees were payable. Scholarships were available for poorer families, with the number of fee payers diminishing in the inter-war years. The curriculum was mainly academic, but included more practical subjects including needlework and domestic science. The school roll expanded from under 130 in 1912 to over 400 by 1920, and more accommodation was required. An extension was completed in 1931, nearly doubling the size of the building. The newly expanded school could accommodate 480 girls, a figure that would have been reached in September 1939. However, with the outbreak of the Second World War, the school evacuated, first to Faversham in East Kent and then, in May 1940, to Pontypridd in South Wales. Most girls returned to the Medway towns by late 1941, and the school reopened. Chatham Grammar School for Girls (since 1944) The Education Act 1944 led to a major restructure of secondary education. The school became the Chatham Grammar School for Girls,