Some minor stats on 11+ preferences
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:24 pm
Thanks to Bucks CC for answering two specific questions on the cohort who entered secondary school in Sept 2007.
The questions were designed to find out how many children sat the 11+ even though their children had little/no prospect of going to grammar school (not least because the parents had written down an upper school as their first preference).
Q1: How many pupils sat the 11+ AND didn't pass AND had an upper school listed as first preference anyway?
Ans: At the end of August, this figure was 1241.
Q2: How many pupils sat the 11+ AND did pass AND had an upper school as their first preference?
Ans: We get very few children who go on to qualify who put an upper school as their preference. For this year, it was less than 10.
Further thanks to Bucks CC for the following stats on the cohort who entered secondary school in Sept 2006:
1. Of the 2537 who qualified in 2006, 721 were out of county residents. Of these, only 308 were actually offered a Bucks grammar school place.
2. Of the 2537 overall qualifiers, 489 qualified from all partner schools. Of these only 329 actually took up grammar school places.
Some of the second group will have been out of county residents (i.e. there are overlaps between these two sets of figures).
Any thoughts from the panel?
The questions were designed to find out how many children sat the 11+ even though their children had little/no prospect of going to grammar school (not least because the parents had written down an upper school as their first preference).
Q1: How many pupils sat the 11+ AND didn't pass AND had an upper school listed as first preference anyway?
Ans: At the end of August, this figure was 1241.
Q2: How many pupils sat the 11+ AND did pass AND had an upper school as their first preference?
Ans: We get very few children who go on to qualify who put an upper school as their preference. For this year, it was less than 10.
Further thanks to Bucks CC for the following stats on the cohort who entered secondary school in Sept 2006:
1. Of the 2537 who qualified in 2006, 721 were out of county residents. Of these, only 308 were actually offered a Bucks grammar school place.
2. Of the 2537 overall qualifiers, 489 qualified from all partner schools. Of these only 329 actually took up grammar school places.
Some of the second group will have been out of county residents (i.e. there are overlaps between these two sets of figures).
Any thoughts from the panel?