How many different state secondaries does your primary 'feed'?

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Curious, really. I mean by 'feed', how many state secondaries are the DCs in your DCs primary usually likely to go to as opposed to 'crazy shenanigans' to get a DC into another distant school as a one-off?

FWIW my DC's primary serves one secondary, bar perhaps 4 DCs a year who don't live in the catchment of this secondary.

Two, like Helyg - one Welsh medium & one bilingual. Latter has worse reputation but is where more go.

Current group of Y6 children are going to about 8 different schools and they are at a single form entry school catholic school. Most children go to one of 5 schools, 2 all girls and 3 mixed. We are in SE London.

Usually the secondary school in the next village but this year 2 families have moved out of the immediate area so their children are going to schools near their new homes in September.

Four.
Vast majority go either local (in same town) or to one specific next-town-over secondary.

I hear that the catchment area of that 2nd most popular choice is being tightened a lot, so may not be an option in future.

All 4 have fairly mediocre GCSE results.

1. There is one catchment school but there is usually no problem about getting a child into a different one. Funnily enough the one where most of the DC go isn't the catchment one. And IMO it's just about the worst one in town - but school inertia is a wonderful thing.

One. (pretty much) We have feeder school system so it would be difficult to go to a different school. There are SEN children though who may have the local special school on their statement as they go to secondary school.

Children from dd's junior school last year went to 17 different senior schools. Some state, some independent. (Approx 35% of the children go to independent schools) Not a grammar area, but some of the senior schools in more rural areas nearby are considered better than the city ones. Many people move house. There actually isn't a state senior school which directly services our community which is why the children are unfortunately scattered all over the place. Doesn't do much for community values, plus the children lose most of their friends...

Blimey! I am amazed! I was expecting perhaps 2 or 3 based perhaps on single sex provision, 11+ and possibly religion, but 11!

We moved here a year ago to get the DSs into a certain primary so they'd make friends prior to going to THE local secondary. It's strictly 'catchment' (out of 280 places, 20 went to out of catchment siblings last year). Needless to say, DS2 (Y4) has made close friends with 3 boys, 2 of whom stand no hope of getting in as they live out of catchment- but there's more to friendship that same schools, so I'm not worried, and, more to the point, nor is he!

But it would be an issue if the DCs went to eleven different secondaries!

Out of 20 kids, its evenly spread between 2 main secondaries - not surprising as the school is about halfway between them.

6 or 7 children are going to other schools where they will be the only child from their primary - variously private, religious, selective & schools their siblings attend.

Nowhere near as bad as the move from nursery though - we were in a black hole for primary schools & nearly every child went to a different primary school, on their own & most didn't know where they were going till a week or so before. That was a crappy summer for everyone - "Am I going to big school?" "Maybe" "Where?" "No idea" "Will I know anyone there?" "Probably not" - all turned out fine though