Good schools in Blackheath / Lee / Hither Green

[MintChocc]

We are considering moving and renting in this area. Can you recommend any good state primary schools?

And in the future, how is it for secondaries?

A friend of mine used to live in Blackheath. She struggled for primary as well as a good secondary and went Indie in Indie in the end and moved out of the area when her DD started secondary.

Oh dear, doesn't sound good then... :(

There are some really good primaries (e.g. John Ball, if memory serves) but catchments are tiny. Have a search on the threads here, there's been lots of discussions of schools in these areas.

There are lots of good primaries in Blackheath and Lee, in fact I can't really think of one to avoid. The house/rental prices do reflect this, but I know less about Hither Green.

Some primaries do have very tiny catchments, eg. urban myth has it that in some high siblings years, Brindishe in Lee does not accept all children living on the same road as the school (a suburban side street). Here's last year's distances, but there note that everywhere you see a bulge class, the distances in normal years will be considerably smaller

If you do send your child to a very sought after primary, expect secondary transition to be fraught. Most local secondaries are very large and get average results, which can deter parents coming from above average primaries. Individual children do excel, and the schools are improving overall. Some of the better ones are faith schools with no sixth forms. Lots of tutoring for out of borough 11 plus and independent schools goes on, and primaries tend to feed to a variety of secondaries.