Are Trinity, DC, Whitgift schools anti-BAME?

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GhanaDad · 15/11/2019 20:09

Our son is currently enrolled at a top private preparatory school in Ghana 🇬🇭.

My wife and I would very much like him to attend the Whitgift School which is a major private school in Surrey, England.

We have been warned that the school accepts relatively few BAME students, and that this is normal for the private schools in England, despite many elite schools being situated in relatively multicultural areas.

If there is a problem with access to BAME at the elite schools in England, why is this the situation and what if anything is being done to redress the imbalance? Why are the grammar schools full of BAME students yet we are sorely underrepresented in the fee-paying schools?

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Seeline · 15/11/2019 20:38

I have a son at Trinity. It is definitely not anti BAME. Very mixed. Have a look at the pictures on the website.

AnotherNewt · 15/11/2019 20:37

DC is very diverse, and I believe Trinity and Whitgift are too.

There might be some reflection of British society and how wealth is distributed. But DC and Whitgift both have extensive bursary schemes which might counterbalance that. And of course they both have boarding houses which brings in international students (Trinity may well have similar - I just don't know so much about it).

aniawl · 15/11/2019 20:30

I don't know who warned you about this or what was their personal experience with those particular schools but I live in the area where they both are, have friends whose sons attend the schools and there is definitely a good ethnic mix in both. That statement might be true about some more rural boarding schools but is really not the case here. I know both schools also offer quite a few bursary places so it's not even that there is no social mix either. Both are known as brilliant schools - good luck.

XelaM · 15/11/2019 20:24

Not the case in my experience in London. It's VERY mixed

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