Caveman47 wrote:
They usually do but for KEHWG they were no scores. I've looked at last year's scores and one pupil achieved a score of 204 and got into HWG. My feeling this time around is that they won't allow scores like that as it is now a KE school. I might be wrong.
If the school has a published minimum score which is required to be considered eligible for a place, then as a fully selective school, it is allowed not to fill its places if it doesn't have enough applicants who meet that standard. If, however, it just goes down the list of applicants until all the places are filled, then the lowest score to obtain a place is the score of the last person admitted.
(For example: our local grammar schools only deem applicants to be 'qualified' if they get at least 303 in the entrance exam. The grammar schools in Colchester and the boys' grammar in Chelmsford, which admit via the same exam, set no minimum. In practice, demand for places means that these schools never admit below our local minimum, either - but should the wind change, so to speak, it could happen).