Coopers in Bromley

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Hi, interested in learning about people’s experience at Coopers Bromley, lovely presentation today. I’d love to hear any experiences or useful info good or bad. Thanks

Some neighbours DCs went there. I don’t think they had much choice so rarely talked about it. I gather they had trouble with lack of teachers for key subjects but that was a few years ago now for so do check on how many vacancies the school has now.

Look at the achievements of higher attainers and wonder how so many fail to a 4 at Maths and English and how despite being a fair banding school out of 183 pupils only 11 were prior low attainers.

Have you looked up the stats? Looks pretty poor. Have you got any other schools that you might be able to get into?

It's had and still does have a terrible reputation. I don't have personal experience though.

Has an awful reputation locally. Most parents try and get their children in elsewhere-Bullers Wood, Chislehurst Girls etc. I know someone who teaches there. Behaviour is really bad.

I know a few children who were friends of my own children at primary who went to coopers in the last couple of years. They all seem to be doing very well and I haven’t heard any particular negatives from their parents (other than usual gripes/moans that aren’t a million miles from those I’ve heard about pretty much every other school in the borough - including odd moans I’ve had about my own dc’s secondary schools).

But I have to admit that I haven’t looked at the stats. I will say however that one of my dcs is at another local school that used to have a reputation and these have a tendency to linger on particularly when parents remember the school from their own school days, avoid the school on that basis and so on. I suppose I’m as guilty of that as any other parent. Anyway - my point is that one child is at highly rated, good reputation and desirable nearby secondary and other at lingering reputation secondary and in terms of the education they are receiving they are very well matched, both doing well, being taught well and at appropriate depth. Main difference is that the intake of one is more financially diverse that the other and this can have an impact on results I suppose and ‘soft’ areas like school trips.

Worth drilling down into the information on low/middle/high achievers, sen, pupil premium to try and gauge quality of teaching (thought that can change as staff come and go).

Thanks for the feedback so far, I will look at the stats.