My son is in year 11 at a bad state school - most students there fail to pass both maths and english GCSE. I have invested in private tutoring, but he is not particularly self motivated, and really does close to the bare minimum. He is intelligent, but his teachers spend more time childminding poorly behaved students than teaching content. His mock results came out as mostly 5s and 6s, with one 7 in maths.
I want to go private for sixth form, hopefully somewhere that will encourage and nurture him. He wants to pursue STEM a-levels, which are difficult as it is, and I truly believe in a different environment he could do well in them.
How do I find sixth forms that would take a student with poor GCSEs and no sporting or musical talents? I am wary that there are often problems with private schools with low entry requirements (very privileged attitudes, drugs?). Any recommendations would be very much appreciated, as well as suggestions as to how I go about finding these schools (googling 'low entry requirement private sixth forms' doesn't seem to be cutting it...)