Can we have a sticky please on how school allocation works?
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To be fair to the 2 super selectives in W. Kent, the opening line of the headmasters speeeh at Judd, on the Open Evening in 2009, was ' Last year the"pass mark for Judd" was 414, and 50% of the boys scored 420", and in the Skinners propectus, there was an ADMISSIONS, insert, which clearly pointed out that up until then, the last 3 years entrance scores on first allocation were 404; 404; 406. So people did know what they were dealing with. I think that KCC should stop saying that "your child has been deemed suitable for a grammar school place" and just say, "this is your score - you can now apply to which ever schools you think fit ' i.e. no pass or fail, just a mark.The benefit of the new system is that you can now get a rough idea of where you'll get in.