state primary versus prep school
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state primary versus prep school
I was curious to know whether there were statistics of how many children at Grammar Schools are from the state sector and how many from private?
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Round here state greatly outweighs private, but then our primaries are good.newgirl wrote:I was curious to know whether there were statistics of how many children at Grammar Schools are from the state sector and how many from private?
Each school will be different.
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Some very rough stats for Bucks are that 17% of children living in the county and who pass the 11+ are from prep schools.
We don't know how many of those actually took up a GS place, and nor do we have figures for children from outside Bucks broken down by state/private, but I suspect that the balance there would be more in favour of state schools.
If you believe Wikipedia, the percentage of children being privately educated country-wide is 7% (at all ages), so the Bucks figure is disproportionately high compared with that.
I would imagine it is probably one of the highest in the country, because our GS system is county-wide, and a lot of parents choosing prep school education are doing so entirely in the hope that the child will have a higher chance of getting a GS place.
We don't know how many of those actually took up a GS place, and nor do we have figures for children from outside Bucks broken down by state/private, but I suspect that the balance there would be more in favour of state schools.
If you believe Wikipedia, the percentage of children being privately educated country-wide is 7% (at all ages), so the Bucks figure is disproportionately high compared with that.
I would imagine it is probably one of the highest in the country, because our GS system is county-wide, and a lot of parents choosing prep school education are doing so entirely in the hope that the child will have a higher chance of getting a GS place.
Was told by a very reliable source that 40% of Salisbury GS places go to children from prep schools!Sally-Anne wrote:Some very rough stats for Bucks are that 17% of children living in the county and who pass the 11+ are from prep schools.
If you believe Wikipedia, the percentage of children being privately educated country-wide is 7% (at all ages), so the Bucks figure is disproportionately high compared with that.
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Absolutely - there were 173 passes in south Bucks in 2007, compared to 43 in Wycombe area and only 12 in the Aylesbury Vale area.Guest55 wrote:It varies in different parts of Bucks - I would say in North Bucks the % of private school children in GS is smaller than the south. This is probably because the south is much wealthier and the north more rural and there are fewer prep schools.
The numbers passing from state schools are usually fairly evenly spread across all 3 areas, with only a slight bias to the south.
I think it is the "Challoners effect" (not forgetting Beaconsfield High) - both schools are so high in the league tables that they outperform all but the very best independents, so parents will pay for Prep schools to get in to them.