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BRGS

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:20 pm
by Adele
Hi, has any body managed to get a place in this school while living in Manchester?
Thank you

Re: BRGS

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:20 am
by mitasol
Sorry you’ve had no reply. All I can suggest is that you contact the school and ask them for more information.

Re: BRGS

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:55 am
by hermanmunster
Places are given to kids in area 1 and then area 2 primaries both in rank order, after that it is OOC children in rank order. The question you need to ask is how many children from outside the area 1 and 2 primaries have got a place in the past few years

https://www.brgs.org.uk/parents-and-students/policies" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: BRGS

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:58 am
by hermanmunster
hermanmunster wrote:Places are given to kids in area 1 and then area 2 primaries both in rank order, after that it is OOC children in rank order. The question you need to ask is how many children from outside the area 1 and 2 primaries have got a place in the past few years

https://www.brgs.org.uk/parents-and-students/policies" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ETA - from this post it looks like parents are given an overall rank ? https://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum ... 4&p=694147" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; from this it should indicate whether an OOC child has a chance of getting a place

Re: BRGS

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:42 am
by Daviessar
If you are outside tier 1 and 2 then distance makes absolutely no difference. There were kids from over 30 miles away at the induction day. It all then depends on the score, which in turn determines your place on the waiting list.

Re: BRGS

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:44 am
by Daviessar
Does anyone know the typical score out of area kids needed to get to get in, or scores for top 10 waiting list?

Re: BRGS

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:14 am
by hermanmunster
Daviessar wrote:If you are outside tier 1 and 2 then distance makes absolutely no difference. There were kids from over 30 miles away at the induction day. It all then depends on the score, which in turn determines your place on the waiting list.
yes that is correct, as the policy states it is in rank order - however they are then open to problem with children travelling long distances, much depends on public transport systems and 25 miles on one train leg is fine but when it means changes, or the direct bus takes over an hour it can get grim especially in the winter

Re: BRGS

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:39 am
by Daviessar
Last year the pass mark was 99.5.
Tier 1 got a place.
Tier 2 got places
Out of area were given places in rank order. Not sure what the out of area pass mark was, but know lots of kids in the low hundreds out of area who didn't get places. The proportion of out of area kids varies from year to year, sometimes as much as half the places. I know an out of area child whose family has moved up from Derby because they secured a place! The highest mark I'm aware of was 128.6. Not sure what the max mark is.

Although the test is the same one as some of the Trafford grammars, the marking scheme and scores differ from school to school so the same child may be given a score of 120 for brgs, and 150 for a Trafford school for the exact same paper.