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Wycombe Abbey vs G&L vs CLSG

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Teresa001 · 12/02/2021 13:38

Hi, I need some advice to decide my DD's 11+ schooling. She is luckly enough to get the offer from WA, GL and CLSG so far. My husband prefer G&L because looks like the GCSE and A+ in the recently years are better than WA result. but I still want her to choose WA because the school offers quite a lot of activities and can help her to be more independant. We dont consider the location becuase we are flexible to move. Any comments? Thanks

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Sianbenson · 07/11/2021 20:55

I think the WA promotional video is awful. Pretentious and arrogant comments from the girls who show no empathy ir awareness of others less privileged than themselves. I would never send a daughter there.

itinerant42 · 13/02/2021 16:07

The difference among results in the schools are sufficiently small that probably shouldn't be a major factor in your choice, and probably more to do with small differences in student recruitment/cohort or even just chance rather than big differences in school value-add. Which school is top seems to jump about each year and a bit depends on your metric for comparison. G&L used to be regarded as somewhat weaker than the other two, but their results have improved steadily in recent years.

Addmelater3 · 12/02/2021 22:11

The differences between the schools in terms of GCSE and A-level grades are very small. However, if we look at these small points, G&L has been better than CLSG in the past few years. I don't think it matters. Depending on your (DD's) goals, G&L has the IB option, and they have been ranked one of the best in the world for the past years. G&L girls also come from different areas in London. Girls come from Holborn, Camden, Brent, H&F, Kensington, Westminster, Hounslow, Sutton ...

Stokey · 12/02/2021 13:58

Wycombe is boarding and the others are day so quite a different prospect. Personally having boarded myself from age 10, I wouldn't be keen on my children doing the same unless there was a strong reason to do so, but others on here probably feel differently. I would hope the pastoral care has improved over the last 20 odd years though. I am surprised that G&L has better results than Wycombe. Boarding makes you independent in a way but in another way, you're in a very protected environment. Going to somewhere like CLSG and getting the tube every day and having friends all over London, would in many ways lead to more independence than boarding.