Fluctuating allocation distances for Dr Challoners

[MrsH173015]

Do you happen to know where people in pure DCGS catchment go when they don't get in on distance? The CC told me most go to Chesham, was that your experience?

I don't know of any boys that haven't been offered John Hampden and some may get into RGS dependent on years. I only know one GX boy who went to Chesham but that was because they chose it, not because BCC allocated it. Some other GX parents opt to privately educate if they are not willing to consider an alternative grammar to DCGS.

It is important to note that if you only name once choice, i.e. DCGS, on your schools application form, then you will be offered a space in any grammar school which has remaining spaces in the (quite likely) event of DCGS being full. That could well be Chesham as it was historically undersubscribed. That is almost certainly what BCC are referring to. However, if you list your choices as JHGS & RGS as 2 and 3, then you will almost certainly get one of them.