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What % A - A* GCSE pass rate

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sadie3 · 01/09/2012 18:58

Would you consider to be good for a private school?

Selective and non selective

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glaurung · 02/09/2012 13:39

selective schools have very different intakes though. A rural selective school will be far less selective than one in a big population centre. Also girls schools will do better than boys for GCSE, even with the same amount of selectivity (or unselectivity).

I think wordfactories figures sound ridiculously optimistic for a rural area at least.

KitKatGirl1 · 02/09/2012 12:22

Independent school ds will be joining for secondary gets 50% A and A* which I think is very good for a non-selective. They lose some of the brightest dc out of the prep at 11 to farflung grammars and have an excellent reputation for SEN, especially dyslexia and ASDs (and I think quote an average cohort of 20% low achievers). This actually makes their results better than any of the grammars or comprehensives in the county (as you may say they should be with the smaller classes, etc).

BeckAndCall · 01/09/2012 19:23

Interesting answer - 80% gives you the top 48 in the country on this years results - so about 2 per county on average.

Problem is, it depends where you are, - there may be some counties with nothing in the top 50 so choices would be limited. For Surrey or London, say, I'd agree with the 80% mark, but for Cornwall or Cumbria, with limited options, I might say differently....

wordfactory · 01/09/2012 19:15

Selective - 85%+
Non-selective - 60%+

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