Beaconsfield High - undersubscription
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:26 pm
As a Foundation School, BHS can manage it's own Admissions, although the school recently handed back that responsibility for Year 7 - 9 to Bucks CC - presumably because they have not been undersubscribed for many years.
This year is a different matter of course, and I have heard that letters are being sent out to parents of girls in all parts of Bucks (including some who live very long distances away indeed) offering them places at BHS due to undersubscription.
The interesting nugget in the letter is: "... considerably fewer girls have qualified for a grammar school place than boys this year (70 in fact) This has resulted in there being some places available for Year 7 from September at Beaconsfield High School."
This is not actually as exceptional as it suggests - in 2008 there were 28 more qualified boys than girls, in 2007 it was 189, in 2006 it was 75 and in 2005 it was 186.
Thus, the problem is primarily geographic and peculiar to South Bucks, rather than being purely demographic, as this letter would like us to believe.
It remains good news for anyone wanting a place at BHS though.
Sally-Anne
This year is a different matter of course, and I have heard that letters are being sent out to parents of girls in all parts of Bucks (including some who live very long distances away indeed) offering them places at BHS due to undersubscription.
The interesting nugget in the letter is: "... considerably fewer girls have qualified for a grammar school place than boys this year (70 in fact) This has resulted in there being some places available for Year 7 from September at Beaconsfield High School."
This is not actually as exceptional as it suggests - in 2008 there were 28 more qualified boys than girls, in 2007 it was 189, in 2006 it was 75 and in 2005 it was 186.
Thus, the problem is primarily geographic and peculiar to South Bucks, rather than being purely demographic, as this letter would like us to believe.
It remains good news for anyone wanting a place at BHS though.
Sally-Anne