www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/04/michael-gove-education-secretary-child-state-secondary-school
Are we supposed to be impressed?
It's the most over-subscribed school in Westminster (1036 applicants for 150 places), religiously selective, single-sex, the majority of the intake is above average, and it's the highest performing school in Westminster: www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/education/school_tables/secondary/11/html/eng_maths_213.stm?compare=
It claims to operate a fair banding system, with 25% above average, 50% average, and 25% below. Miraculously however, its intake shows just 9% below average, and 52% above average.
www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/school.pl?urn=138313
Education secretary gets daughter into massively oversubscribed state school shock.
Quite easy to get in, if you can pull the strings, there are 15 'language' places, for example, reserved for language ability, and then the 'fair banding' replaces are ranked by religious affiliation, with points for weekly church attendance for five years, but since it's inherently unfair, who knows how it is really administered.
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