Wallington High or Graveney Out of Borough Place?

[Psychologika]

If you had a choice of a place between the two, which would you take, and why?!

Wallington high has better progress 8 and attainment 8 so I would choose that unless I lived significantly closer to Graveney. Where do you live?

I'd choose whichever is closest tbh.

I have a daughter at WHSG, I've generally been happy with the school so far, but we are very close to it so we didn't consider other selective options.

They are very different schools but both good schools. Another vote for whichever is closer and easier to get to. They are also very different locations so assume you live closer to one. Otherwise look at the curriculum and gcse options/ extra curricular offer etc as one will offer something that is more of interest than the other to your dc.

We are Crystal Palace/ south Norwood border so both aren't that close (though I do work in Tooting so could conceivably drop to school).

Do you want co-ed or single sex? That's surely a consideration.

I visited both. I found Graveney more exciting TBH, just had more energy to it. It seemed a bit chaotic but it was an interesting school even with that.

Wallington not so much, I'm not sure why.

If you work in tooting and will do for some years to come then being in the area where your child is at school surely makes sense?

@JulieBeds yes, it does!

I think it is worth canvassing other opinions, but ultimately different people like different things/have different preferences.

I was quite strongly against the Sutton grammars, due primarily to the single sex aspect. This preference was driven much more by gut feel & snippets of personal experience/anecdote rather than empirical evidence.

I really agree with the comments on distance, I'm not sure exactly where OP lives but I'd be loath to commit my kids to a really long school commute.

I suppose if my local comp was relatively high achieving [e.g. measured by an attainment 8 score in e.g. at least the 50s], I'd send them there regardless. If my local comp was so-so [e.g. mid to high 40s attainment 8] I could probably justify up to about an extra 15 minutes each way for Graveney [provided it didn't take the total journey all that near to say the hour mark], maybe only about half that for Wallington. If my local comp was bad [e.g. low to mid 40s attainment 8] I could probably justify roughly double the above extra travel time. But a lot depends on the specifics, e.g. Ofsted ratings, how much attainment setting there was etc.

@puffyisgood thank you for your thoughts. The main issue is that the local comps are all Harris Academies, which we are not really on board with...

[quote Psychologika]@puffyisgood thank you for your thoughts. The main issue is that the local comps are all Harris Academies, which we are not really on board with...[/quote]
Oh, right. well, both of the two schools have plenty of kids who do similar commutes to the one you're describing [5 miles/45-60 minutes ish?], if you're set on going outside your local area then both of your two choices are 'good schools'.