Editing Dover (section)

==Education==
{{Further|List of schools in Kent}}

There are seven secondary level schools serving Dover.

'''Public schools'''

* [[Dover College]]

[[Dover College]] is a mixed [[Public school (UK)|public school]] founded in 1871 by a group of local business men.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dovercollege.org.uk |title=Dover College |publisher=Dover College |access-date=26 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222151738/http://www.dovercollege.org.uk/ |archive-date=22 December 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

'''Selective secondary schools'''

There are two single-sex grammar schools and a mixed military school in Dover.

* [[Dover Grammar School for Boys]] (DGSB)
* [[Dover Grammar School for Girls]] (DGGS)

Both grammar schools require the Dover Test or the Kent Test for admission to Year 7.

* [[Duke of York's Royal Military School]]

[[Duke of York's Royal Military School]] is a selective secondary school with [[Academy (English school)|academy status]] and England's only military boarding school for children of service personnel (co-education ages 11–18), located next to the former site of [[Connaught Barracks, Dover|Connaught Barracks]].

'''Non-selective secondary schools'''

There are 3 ex-[[Secondary modern school|secondary modern]] mixed schools in Dover, all with [[Academy (English school)|academy status]].

* [[Astor Secondary School]]

[[Astor Secondary School]] [[School federation (England and Wales)|federated]] with St Radigunds Primary School (then renamed White Cliffs Primary College for the Arts) to form the Dover Federation for the Arts (DFA). Subsequently, Barton Junior School and Shatterlocks Nursery and Infant School joined the DFA.  In 2014, the DFA was warned by the Department for Education about "unacceptably low standards of performance of pupils ".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-warning-notice-to-astor-college|title=Academy trusts: notices about poor performance|website=Gov.uk|access-date=2 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209083303/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-warning-notice-to-astor-college|archive-date=9 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

* [[St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover|St Edmund's Catholic School]]

[[St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover|St Edmund's Catholic School]] federated with St Richards Catholic Primary School to form the Dover Federation of Catholic Schools.

* [[Dover Christ Church Academy]]

[[Dover Christ Church Academy]] is located in Whitfield, 4 miles north of Dover.

'''Technical College'''

Dover Technical College is part of the [[East Kent College]] (EKC) group.

In addition, 16 primary schools and two special schools add to the educational offering.