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What's happening at Haberdasher's Askes Hatcham. Why have results dropped so much ?

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Finallyspring · 06/03/2011 11:48

We have a place at Askes. It used to be very highly thought of but results took huge drop last year and have heard that there are behaviour and staff morale issues. I have heard this has happened as a result of merger with local primary. Does anyone know anything about this ?

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LondonMother · 06/03/2011 14:28

I read a thread on the East Dulwich forum about this last year. The cohort that took GCSEs last summer were the first admitted under the current admissions policy. Previously they didn't have sibling priority or take any account of distance, now they do. The old admissions policy was very difficult to make any sense of and there was a lot of suspicion that the school had been cherrypicking the most able and motivated pupils, although it is nominally a comprehensive.

The people discussing on the EDF this said that the problem last year was with Maths and that staff had struggled to cope with a very different intake from what they'd been used to. I have no idea whether things have improved since.

Worth mentioning though, that the huge drop you mention is from 90+% getting 5+ A*-C GCSEs including Maths and English to 70%+ getting that - and the latter is still extremely good for an inner London comprehensive. Some might say that this indicates that at last Aske's genuinely does have a comprehensive intake.

clux73 · 06/03/2011 11:51

I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows about this too.