Best part of ED school wise

[new mother]

Friends are moving over and have pretty academic children - I b and I g.

They have a goodish but not huge chunk of equity from previous house and can afford a four bed effort over here.

School is going to be the main determinant for them. They are not partic bothered about proximity to anything else.

On this basis, where shouldthey go for? We are not at that stage yet so I don't feel my anecdotal Evidence - x children push a lot on the bus - is very reliable. Thanks

[zeban]

Shouldn't this be in the family room?

[samstopit]

If I was making this decision now I would go for the Forest Hill side of ED and make sure I was in the catchment for Fairlawn or Horniman schools. Both excellent schools and they are likely to get a bit more house / garden for their money too.

[Fuschia]

Isn't secondary going to be more the issue?

[snowboarder]

In which case somewhere close to Charter? Then potential for Dulwich village/hamlets too if still little at first?

[trinity]

What age are the children?

[womanofdulwich]

i would steer them more to getting onto the very tight Graveney area.

[sillywoman]

Opposite ED hospital. In catchment for Dv primaries and brilliant Charter secondary. Lovely 4/5 bed houses. Small gardens though.

Graveny? Pah. Bah humbug WoD.

[toast]

Googled WoD, none the wiser. Unless you are referring to world of darkness or weapons of destruction. Sorry for lack of e-literacy.

[new mother]

thanks very much for the replies. I had been assuming primary but, of course, seconadry is the real issue. Also, with stamp duty and the stress of moving both being very high, I tend to think that property is a long term investment. Their ch are currently at a private primary which they are hoping will not be nec over here.

[womanofdulwich]

Graveney is a far more academic school than charter.Not better necessariy but far better results.

[new mother]

Wod, Which results are you thinking of? On the basis of 5 A/C passes, Charter is actually better. Whether this means anything at all, given how easy it is nowadays to achieve it, is anyone guess, but those ar ethe cold nos. .

[womanofdulwich]

if you include english, maths, science and a modern langauge (all the things an acadmeic would rate), then charter will fall behind graveney. The charter is very good at getting everyone up on the number of gcse's but it is different gcse's for differnt people, where as graveney still push the more academic subjects- imo.

[sillywoman]

Hmm interesting . .. so what's Graveney's 'british bac' stats then WoD?

[sillywoman]

OK just answered my own question with the aid of Proff google. Graveney does get better GCSE results and their british bac rate is 38% compared to Charter's 17%, buuut as a confirmed ED-re I stand by my "Pah". new mother has posted her request for information on the East Dulwich Forum WoD, not the Wandsworth forum. If her friends wanted to info about schools somewhere else then I'm sure she would have posted elsewhere. As your heart clearly isn't in the services our community has to offer here maybe your name is something of a misnomer?

toast - WoD = womanofduwich.

[new mother]

Yes Wod, Graveney would be too far away, thanks.

They defo want ED, partly because a lot of their/our friends are here and partly beucase they think ED still has some way to go. Cf Fulham for example where the housing stock is very similar but much dearer than ED, the shops better tbh but that takes time, but the trasnport WORSE(!).

[womanofdulwich]

i just need to point out that Charter got 66% grade A * to C inc English and Maths compared to 82.07% at Graveney.

Charter is not really East Dulwich, more Dulwich Village, and your friend would have to be careful that she was close enough to the school. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Charter, but its results are not as good as Graveney- partly because some of its intake is selective.

I only mentioned Graveney because you stressed that your friends children were academic.

[toast]

sillywoman Wrote:

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> toast - WoD = womanofduwich.

Thank you. :-$

[sillywoman]

Nope, we're definitely East Dulwich, definitely NOT dulwich Village (I wish), and definitely firmly in The Charter catchment. Most of my children's school friends live in East Dulwich, Herne Hill & Nunhead.

[snowboarder]

Sorry I know this info is elsewhere but what is Charter catchment approx? Is it as the crow flies measurement?

[womanofdulwich]

i think it is the shortest posiible walking route, but rememeber that proirity goes to siblings and other needy groups. 3 years ago we were too far away at 1.5 km. however I notice children walk past my house every day who fall into the other 2 categories.

[EDmummy]

We are just over 800m away from Charter and are pretty sure we won't get in. Would prefer Kingsdale but that is a bit of a lottery.

[Otto]

To cover both primary and secondary, the houses around glengarry rd as mentioned earlier and parts of Melbourne, tell grove will likely get you a spot at Dulwich hamlet and charter, but, you would likely have to be religious or closer to Dulwich village to snag a place at Dulwich infants....it does vary year to year so nothing is a guarantee....

[new mother]

Many thanks everyone.

[sillywoman]

Hmm, actually we've found the opposite to be true of living around Glengarry Otto. Three years ago we got a community place no problem at DVI - no religion and given a place straight away, this year we had to be on a waiting list for a few weeks to get a place at DHJS. a friend in Ggarry is still waiting for a place there.

Charter doesn't seem to be a problem. EDmummy, you'll probably get a place, but what a shame when someone else who really wants to be there because they can see what a great school it is could have it instead. A friend said recently to me that people in ED don't seem to really appreciate just how good The Charter is because of all the hype over KD. I've observed on this forum that certainly seems to be the case.