Help for private school for kids

A lot of Hounslow secondary schools are good. Especially when you consider several of them have Highly mobile populations and pupils who don't have English as a first language and arrive with a low level of English . However lots of the parents value education Highly which helps pupils excel. If you are in Chiswick the local population is different to Hounslow.
If you are set on private look at preps e.g. Newland house in Twickenham. I think they only take boys at 11, The Mall Twickenham, (boys) or for both of them Newton Prep but that would be a schlep from Hounslow. Clifton Lodge Ealing
Also contact schools such as Kew House, Thames Christian College, Halliford (boys) St James, St Catherine's (girls) but you have left it a bit late.

Genuinely puzzled as to why you think Hounslow schools are bad:

www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/compare-schools?phase=secondary&selectPhase=true

II out of 13 schools have a positive Progress 8 and the other 2 are only slightly in the negative zone. And only 2 schools out of thirteen get less than 60% English and Maths GCSEs. I'm not quite sure what an Education Authority has to do if this is not "good enough" frankly.

This is for this September 2017 intake though, if her kids took the entrance exams in January, so even the less competitive Bucks schools (whether you can get to them or not from Hounslow!), have done their testing and will be offering places out come 1st March.

As I've said before, which places did you put on the Secondary School Application form? If you didn't think the Hounslow schools were any good (not even Lampton...??) why didn't you try for some of the Richmond schools, like Christ's, which a fair number of Hounslow kids head for? Or Tiffins? Or did you not do a state application at all and now you are stuck?

Hounslow schools' Progress 8 scores were pretty good when the tables came out recently.

As a secondary teacher who has taught in a variety of schools (private, religious, state and academy) but who went to a private school, I would say I agree with the above comment about private not necessarily being better than state. It is about finding the right fit for each child. Progress 8 is a much better measure of a school as it tells you how far a child has progressed in the school, ie were gifted children pushed just as much as those struggling. Those so called good schools have ended up doing badly (as I always knew) with new progress 8 system, they did not put in much effort and good results were due to parents. Also please note that certain Universities now positively discriminate so if your child struggles academically, you may want to consider a deprived state school if you want them to go to Uni. Just so you know, after my parents wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds on my education, my brother went to a rough state school and is a Doctor running his own GP Practice. I don't even earn a fifth of his income.

Could you start in a Hounslow school and if it isn't working look to move either to private for 13+ or to one of the Slough Consortium Grammar Schools as they do occasionally have spaces outside of the usual 11+ some of them have General Admission areas that include Hounslow postcodes.

Hmmmm - what private boys senior school is there in Bucks that you could travel to from Houslow?

Look in bucks. Due to the 11+ system there I don't think the private schools are as competitive to get into.

The state schools in Hounslow are really not as bad as you seem to have decided. My son is doing very well in a Hounslow school and I know a large number of kids in Hounslow schools who go on to top universities. Which schools have you put down on the state application?

Look for a prep school that loses pupils to good state schools in year 7. Then you can apply for public schools during the second round of entrance exams in year 7 & 8.

Phone the ones you are interested in. Yes, it could make a difference them being in smaller classes with a wider range of activities. Best of luck sounds like it's not been a good time for you

If they are in yr6, have you not already applied for state options for September?

If you want a private school for September you could call round to see if anywhere will accept late applications. Schools which are not heavily oversubscribed are more likely to be open to this. Maybe try newer schools like Kew House or Radnor House.

Hounslow does have good state secondaries. Look at the Progress 8 results to compare how well pupils progress and see if there is a suitable choice near you.

Good luck!

private is not automatically better than state. What are you looking for in a private school? That makes a big difference