Safe places to raise teenagers - SW London

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We live in Balham which is generally lovely. But in the past months there have been a lot of muggings of secondary school kids, someone was attacked for their watch round the corner from our house last week etc. Our kids are still in primary school but I'm scared for them when they move to secondary. Are there areas of SW London where you don't worry about your kids being mugged? Or is this happening everywhere? Thanks

Same. Brought up in rural West Country (drugs, rural poverty and drunk driving rife). Now on east London borders. Feels much safer!

This year Turing House had better GCSE results than Orleans Park.

The Crossrail 2 will make a significant change.

I’d second (or third?) Richmond. It’s gorgeous.

@ReneeX what's the journey time from Hampton to central London likely to be if cross rail 2 ever happens? Looks slow from the map.

@RolRollercoaster1920 No idea but it suppose to be on new faster track with 10-12 trains per hour.

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Did they? Looks like they had a slightly higher proportion of grade 5+ in English and maths but on other measures the GCSE results weren’t as good.

But that is the main measure. For a new school these are excellent results, especially all of the "nomad school lifestyle" they had moving through all these buildings...I wonder who is occupying the old Clarendon school building now, or what is that first site in Teddington that they had. I am hesitating between Turing and St Pauls or SRR

Progress 8 they also have significantly better. eBacc entry is only better at Orleans because the difference in eBacc score is close to none and it is virtually the same.

I won’t derail the thread any further other than to mention that 50% of GCSEs were 9-7 at OP last year compared with 35% at Turing House.

Cant recommend anywhere in SW London - although partner was born and raised in Hampton and is perfectly fine and non-dangerous. But I did want to say that this is currently happening in our part of SE London. It is frightening.

Silly to play tit for tat on school results, especially for post-Covid 2022 results, and they're both great schools, but when push comes to shove progress 8 is always a better measure than the number of 9-7 grades because it is less skewed by intake. In 2017 when the 2022 GCSE cohort joined secondary school, OP had a smaller, wealthier catchment than THS (which had only been established 2 years then).

Really though, anyone who chooses a house and school based solely on whether kids several years older were first or second in a GCSE league table would be clutching at straws.