Bolingbroke academy Post Reply

[secondtimer]

Hello!

I believe the bolingbroke academy starts its first term tomorrow, a great achievement even if it is at the burntwood site.

I read in the evening standard that there were 591 applications for 120 places and wondered if anyone had any information about how that number broke down between the feeder schools and what distribution of successful applicants came from each school?

Im guessing that things will get worse once siblings enter the equation so best keep saving for private for now!! :-/

[schoolgatesmum]

If you look on the Wandsworth council website and the secondary schools admission guide it's all on there. It gives a breakdown of where all the children come from. 13 children not from feeder schools got a place, 44 from Belleville, 7 Falconbrook, 19 Highview, 27 Honeywell and 4 from Wix.

[FraggleRocks]

I'm not sure that this information tells you anything helpful (if my assumptions for your reason for asking are correct). What you would need to know is the proportion of people from the feeder schools who applied got in, and which proportion didn't. My presumption (which might be wrong - I have not read all the admissions details as it's not relevant to me yet) is that since non-feeder-school children got into the school then everyone who applied from feeder schools must have got a place and all those who didn't get a place came from non-feeder schools. In anycase, as you say, it's likely to change massively over the next few years depending on whether or not the school meets expectations of local parents etc.

Presumably, it is possible that more than 120 people apply from feeder schools in the future. What happens then?

[Gayville]

If the feeder schools apply for more places than they are allocated then what happens is that the school measures the distance as the crow flies from home to school. So if 30 children from, say Honeywell, apply for a place, but Honeywell has only been allocated 25 places, then those places go to the 25 kids who live closest to the school. My son who was at Honeywell started today, so I'm hoping that the school is succesful - in which case it will become even more over subscribed than it was this year.

[FraggleRocks]

Thanks for clarifying Gayville. Best wishes to your son at the new school.

[brihoney]

The non-feeder pupils that got in might have been 'looked after' children (i.e. those in foster homes, care etc) as they get to the top of the list (which I think is definitely a good thing, my sister-in-law is a foster carer and you sometimes need all the support you can get from a good school, and you might want to move the child away from current bad influences of gangs etc).

But just thought I'd add that spanner in your logic about whether all those from feeder schools who wanted to did get in...

[schoolgatesmum]

According to the wandsworth secondary school brochure, only one place has been offered to a looked after child(i.e. foster child) at Bolingbroke. So that means that 13 children got in on distance alone - up to 975m. Of course it's early days so it's very difficult to tell what will happen next year but my guess is that a few places will still go on distance.