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The Good Schools Guide 2012

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How Good Is Your School?

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11+ English: A Parent's Toolkit

11+ English: A Parent's Toolkit Everything your child needs to know about English.

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Good Schools Guide School Pages

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The Right Location?

Catchment area

For English state schools - see where pupils at the school come from.

Good For Your Child?

It may be a good school for some but not for all...Our value-added graphs guide you.

Value-added data is available for English state schools and for independent schools at A-level.
Good for your child?

Which Schools Do Pupils Come From?

For English state schools.

See the schools pupils come from and those they move on to, with these dynamic charts.

The Right Exam Courses?

Qualifications pie

Does the English senior school offer the courses and qualifications that interest your child

Popular / Successful At GCSE/A-level

Popular and successful courses at GCSE and A-level For English senior schools, are the subjects that interest your child, popular and successful, for both girls and boys, at GCSE and/or A-level or is it a case of 'could they do better'?

Popular / Successful At Key Stage 2

Key stage 2 results
For English state junior schools examine the performance of boys and girls at key stage 2 in English, maths and science.

Good Universities And Courses?

School leaver university destinations
For English senior schools, see which universities pupils go to and the courses that are popular.

Use in conjunction with Six Of The Best which shows which schools send most pupils to a given course at a selected university.

How Able Are The Pupils?

On entry?

For English state schools, see how able boys and girls are when they enter a school...

GCSE results

...and when they leave...

Best Of The Best?

Subscribers can use 'My Schools' to identify the top performing schools from within their chosen selection.

Top performing subjects Or, use 'My Schools' to see which of your selected schools do better in your child's preferred subjects.

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The English School System

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