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Grammar schools in Milton keynes

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Ashu13 · 25/04/2016 23:12

Hi,

We are planning to buy a house and also are looking for houses in Milton Keynes. My daughter is in Year 4 and I plan to prepare her for 11+ exams. Are there any grammar schools in MK, I have read posts of 2005 which say that no grammar school has the catchment in MK. Please let me know. Thanks!

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Ashu13 · 26/04/2016 00:39

Thank you Zip Zap.
Are you sure that children from MK are allowed in these grammar schools.
Actually my husband works in Leamington Spa and I in cambridge, now we are planning a mid point for both of us.
Milton Keynes seems to be good location wise but my girl is quite keen on grammar schools as she has a cousin's son in Solihull's grammar school to look upto.
How about Soulbury? will that be better for grammar schools as for us somewhere mid place seems okay for now.
otherwise we could just be based in Leamington spa, atleast one of us will be near to work!!

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zipzap · 25/04/2016 23:26

There aren't any grammar schools in MK but children from MK can apply to go to the grammar schools in Buckingham, Aylesbury or Leighton Buzzard... There are buses that do school runs to these schools from MK - albeit parents have to pay for them.

If you do want to apply for them then don't do what I did and get caught out by the application for the entrance test. Applications need to be in at the end of the Y5 summer term. But the rest of the applications for the MK schools is all done around September/October - and certainly when I asked about what happened for looking around schools (expecting it to be in that summer term) for ds1 last year, was told everything had to wait until the start of the Autumn Term of Y6. Nobody mentioned anything about dates for grammars which I thought I'd also been talking about.

Although there are some bad not so good comprehensives in MK, there are also some good comprehensives too so it's worth checking them out. I'm lucky in that both dc are at one of the top rated (if not the top rated) junior school in MK which is fantastic, and ds1 has got a place at the top rated senior school in MK for next year, which we decided was preferable in the end instead of going for grammar school and lots of travelling.

It's definitely worth checking out the different areas for the different schools that you're interested in and the catchment areas for the different schools as it can make a massive difference to the overall experience you have of living here. However, when it's good it's a fantastic place to live!