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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

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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.
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.

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.

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(!).

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.

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.
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....

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.

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