petjam wrote:
Will an IC application always take priority over an OOC? Or do the schools always have a percentage which will go to OOC?
i.e. If enough children apply IC there will be no places at all for OOC?
I ask because as we know 50% more children took the exam. Surely that will have a bearing on the number of OOC places?
Depends really.
WestCliff Girls had 50% kids from OOC and IC last two years - as per the Headteacher on open day.
As per their admission guide - 75% of seats are filled by IC students (no more than 75%), until they run out of IC students who scored 303 or more. It seems this usually is the case. Then they are left with at least 25% seats which are allocated to OOC students.
It depends these extra 50% students who gave the exam this year are from IC or OOC.
What makes it unclear is that we don't know out of these 50% extra students (this year) how many are girls /boys.