Has anyone else not made their choices yet? Pulling my hair out

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Porthminster · 04/10/2018 10:53

Has anyone else not yet put in their choices for secondary school next year?

I've been to all the open evenings, read all of the prospectuses, been back again to open mornings, read the ofsted reports, checked the results.

I'm still no closer really to making a decision.

There are 3 realistic possibilities for ds, all 3 have their positives and negatives, none quite tick all the boxes and I can't quite weigh up how ds would get on.

For example there's no way of truly knowing whether poor results are down to the school, or the individual.

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StableGenius · 04/10/2018 11:01

You could try looking at value-added scores, plus the new Progress8 measure - this shows how much progress pupils make on average above or below their expectation at the end of KS2.

All four of the schools in my local town were dire for this - so my dc go to the school in the neighbouring town.

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Porthminster · 04/10/2018 10:57

Ofsted is worse than useless to go by. How can you possibly use ofsted reports as a quite, when the schools haven't been inspected for 5 years?

I've seen schools be rated outstanding then become inadequate on the next inspection.

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