Experience of Amersham School or the Misbourne?

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Does anyone have experience (direct or indirect) of either Amersham School or the Misbourne please? Looking ahead for DS....

Anyone?......

I have several friends who all chose to go out of catchment for Amersham School rather than sending their children to their catchment school (CCC). As far as I know they are all very happy with their choice and the children are doing well.

Oh that's interesting, and good to know! I know the local primary schools pretty well but not the secondaries, and most of my friends' children are still primary age so have a limited pool of people to speak to about experiences of secondary. Thank you for your reply.

I think it's hard to get into the Amersham School if you are out of catchment? Bucks county council have data on their website showing how far the last person to get a place lived away.......services.buckscc.gov.uk/school-admissions/schools/137343

This is from the council website for Amersham - "Criteria for entry (Year 7), September 2018 All applicants offered under rule 2 (catchment), rule 3 (siblings) and some allocated under rule 5 (distance) to 2.700 miles"

I am sure we are catchment for Amersham so should be ok if we opt for it. Will check allocations for Misbourne as we are definitely not catchment so not sure if it would even be an option. If your child doesn't pass 11+ it strikes me you are very limited in terms of choice!

Swan you may well be right. The pupils I'm thinking of are just finishing Year 8, so will be the cohort from the year before your stats. 2.7 miles sounds about right for their village actually.

I wouldn't want to suggest that it's easy to get in if you're out of catchment, I referred to it because I wanted to mention that the parents and pupils I know (5 or 6 different families) all deliberately chose Amersham rather than going for their catchment school.