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Secondary school decision - Hammersmith schools

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valvalm · 28/02/2024 10:21

Good morning all,
First time poster here so forgive me if I don't get all the acronyms right.
Our daughter has been lucky enough to get some offers for secondary school after 11+.
We went to the different offers holder event and we are trying to make the right choice for her.
We are left with SPGS, Godolphin and Latymer Upper. We rejected the other offers last week as less convenient in terms of commute.
I understand that they are all fantastic schools. Obviously Latymer is a co-ed school which is a big differentiating factor - and probably the reason why we won't go for it in the end. My husband is not a big advocate of that for the moment.
Do people have views though on ending GCSE? I understand SPGS will do that soon as well?

Can someone give me differentiators between SPGS and Godolphin please? What I get from talking to parents / friends around me is that SPGS is over academically, number 1 in all leagues for a number of year and it should be a no brainer.
Looking at GCSE results though it looks like we are only talking a few girls having 9 vs 8? Am I correct?
The things that worry me at SPGS at the moment is that it seems to lack diversity in terms of ethnicities. We are of mixed background and when we went for the offer holder there, the vast majority of the girls were of Asian ethnicity,

Please help me!

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vivalasviva · 28/02/2024 10:28

If I were you I'd go for gut feel if you have one. There are lots of post on here debating SPGS in particular and it's the school that seems to generate the most vociferous posts! Some will say noone ever turns it down and others say you'd be mad to go there!
The reality is that lots of girls will have offers for those 3 schools and will all choose different ones. Girls also move after sixth form quite often so you're not necessarily making a decision for the rest of her school life. G&L has IB in sixth which may be important to you?
If you definitely don't want co-ed turn down LU today and concentrate on the others.