to want to move to bognor but to worry about the kids education?

[Confusedmartie999]

We want to move to bognor for many reasons, cheaper rent, family nearby and a really good catholic secondary school in barnham.
However the catholic primary hasn't done well at all in recent years and my husband worries about job opportunities etc when they're older.
Are we right to worry?

Insisting EAL levels are completely immaterial to anything is a very MN trope.

If you are practicing Catholics anyway does it matter hugely if they don't go to a catholic school? They will be getting their religious education elsewhere, no?

You obviously know what you should do for the sake of your kids' education but nevertheless you would like to live closer to your mum and so you keep asking the questions hoping for a different answer.
Horsham is nice and Bognor is not. There is no real getting away from that fact.
However the area is not the be all and end all of life!

Thankyou for your responses.
It's a shame that's all that the schools aren't better as would have been nice for my parents and for the children to live by the sea near family, but I do think a good education is very important as whilst the thought of 65% of children not speaking English / having English as their second language doesn't bother me, it does bother me that the school suggest this is the reason for such poor results in recent years.

If there has been a large number of children with English as an additional language joining the school in the older year groups (year 4-6), this would affect the school's results. But unless this is likely to continue, the results should improve as those who join the school at an earlier age should catch up with their native English speaking peers. This has been our experience in the school in which I teach.

Regardless of this, would this affect the education that your children receive? If the poor results are because of EAL, does this imply that non-EAL children are achieving well?

Hi,
I have no idea if this will continue although I assume so as the numbers are currently rising steadily.
That was my point, that it shouldn't affect my children if some are achieving well and the response was that as they are using so much time to attempt to get the non English speaking children speaking well that the English children aren't able to reach their full potential :-(

They said that to you?

Yep