aicthie wrote:
For Kings Grantham you get a letter from the school with the score for both NVR and VR so you know when you choose a school how close you are to the 220 pass mark. for KGGS Grantham they just say pass or fail but they are usually guaranteed a place if living in catchment, unlike Kings.
The point is that the two schools have totally different acceptance criteria.
Kings entrance is based on exam scores in ranked order, not on a nominal "pass" mark. Places are awarded to those who achieved the higest scores, up to the PAN. They have no "catchment" area as distance is not included in their criteria at all.
KGGS is based on the principal that you get a passing score to be considered, and then places are allocated based purely on distance. I can't remember if they even have a sibling rule. They don't really have a "catchment" in the sense that there is no hard boundary. The last place will go to the PAN-th child living nearer than all others. The distance that last child is from the school will vary from year to year. So next door neighbours in different year groups could be lucky / unlucky purely depending on how many other girls live nearer than they do, in their cohort.
(in both cases there are priority groups as always such as looked after children).