Trafford Grammars AGSG

[bombaychef]

Results are out but we now await admissions decisions. Has any one any feeling about how many have passed for AGSG? We are 8 miles away and some years would get in and some we wouldn't! No one else we know did the exam other than one friend who lives very close whose DD passed

Hi. It used to depend on score for those out of catchment rather than distance. So if there were 50 places left they would start with the girl with the highest score and work down the list.

@ Whiterose Score doesn't matter at all (once you achieve a pass) whether you're in catchment or out of catchment. It is just based on distance.

@bombaychef I think its all anecdotal - some schools have done exceptionally well (virtually all girls passing), some less so but I think that's the same most years. The only thing which may have an impact is the change in the admission policy this year - so that pupils who receive pupil premium have to achieve a lower score of 324 (rather than 334) to get a pass.

The actual over subscription criteria haven't changed - so after looked after children, its pupil premium children in catchment, siblings in catchment, then distance, then the same order for out of catchment.

I think its a bit of an unknown as to whether a lower pass mark for PP pupils will mean more PP pupils "pass" and whether this will have an impact on the number of places available for children in the lower over subscription criteria.

Hi Africa. It looks like the criteria have changed. DS went to AGSB and DD is in AGGS sixth form. When they applied any out of catchment places were allocated according to the score. We assumed that was so that the schools could offer places to the brightest regardless of where they lived which seems better to me.

Thankyou! I hadn't realised the PP criteria had changed. I do think that's fair as over the years, the only children I know who sat the exams were tutored for at last 12 months - at a cost of course. They are more likely also, of course to have well educated parents that can help them and the resources to do so. Unless exceptionally bright, PP girls would definately have been at big disadvantage.

@whiteroseredrose AGSB still allocates on score out of catchment, just not AGGS.

Good luck @bombaychef

Thank you. It was a surprise to realise that ASGS and AGSB had such different systems as this would really effect us. My DD would have a good chance of getting in as every one who passes with 8 miles are in the mix and it's just distance gamble now. But DS wouldn't pass with a very high score I don't think.