New information re: school places planning across Kent
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New information re: school places planning across Kent
Spotted this recently:
http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/communic ... tinid=7345" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
You can find your own area later on in the document it links you to.
http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/communic ... tinid=7345" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
You can find your own area later on in the document it links you to.
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Re: New information re: school places planning across Kent
Thanks Mystery, this bit was interesting...
That is a lot of additional mileage for some children.Over 3,000 out of County children travel into Kent Secondary schools (predominantly grammar schools). This figure includes approximately: 800 children from Medway, 1,300 children that travel into Dartford from London Boroughs (mainly Bexley Borough), 250 that travel into Tonbridge and 500 into Tunbridge Wells.
Only around 30% of children resident in Sevenoaks attend mainstream Secondary provision within Sevenoaks District; approximately 1,100 travel to Dartford, 1,300 to Tonbridge and 750 to Tunbridge Wells.
Re: New information re: school places planning across Kent
Maybe not as high as it looks - they are talking about Sevenoaks District I think, and there will be places in Sevenoaks District where it would be closer to go to a town in another district than in Sevenoaks District.
Also, you're not going to stop people who don't live in Kent wanting to go to grammars in Kent - you can't discriminate in school admissions by local authority area. And we export children too. From where I live we could go to school in Sussex, Kent or Surrey. A lot of children do go outside Kent from here as the schools are closer than Kent schools (and better than some of the Kent non-selectives).
It's a lot of miles that get travelled to secondary school everywhere in the country isn't it, once you are outside big cities? And there's a lot of cross local authority border traffic everywhere. Local authority borders are irrelevant when it comes to educating children .... well for most things really apart from a few minor things like where you post your council tax to and who you vote for.
Also, you're not going to stop people who don't live in Kent wanting to go to grammars in Kent - you can't discriminate in school admissions by local authority area. And we export children too. From where I live we could go to school in Sussex, Kent or Surrey. A lot of children do go outside Kent from here as the schools are closer than Kent schools (and better than some of the Kent non-selectives).
It's a lot of miles that get travelled to secondary school everywhere in the country isn't it, once you are outside big cities? And there's a lot of cross local authority border traffic everywhere. Local authority borders are irrelevant when it comes to educating children .... well for most things really apart from a few minor things like where you post your council tax to and who you vote for.
Re: New information re: school places planning across Kent
Has anyone managed to glean from this document if there is a big enough population surge to warrant a new 6 form entry grammar school in Sevenoaks, or if the Sevenoaks grammar annex is not given permission by the DfE, if we are going to have a crunch on grammar places in West Kent in 2015 onwards?