parents ((considering/who've already chosen) private secondary school) - can you help?

[Townleygreen]

No, Sillywoman, those figures are wrong I promise you. Very few live "live bloomin' miles away". There are certainly quite large numbers coming from Balham, Clapham, Battersea, Blackheath Beckenham etc but just a very few from say Fulham Chelsea Docklands and such. Basically because at that distance there are other "good" schools which are much easier to get to. It's quite logical really!

[sillywoman]

Hmm, my friend has no reason to make it up Townley - they have children there themselves, & have wholeheartedly brought into the Alleyns ethos since well before some of them were even a twinkle in their fathers eye, but now you challenge me & I think carefully maybe I've misquoted the stats for the transport distance & bloomin miles away'. My friend may have said that 1/3 was 'local' (they were very clear about that), and of the remainder 2/3's were transportable & 1/3 'bloomin miles'(my terminology). Either way they won't have been wrong (they just never are), the website is though & we are seriously off topic (apologies OP & admin).

[Townleygreen]

No, I'm sure she isn't making it up, Sillywoman, but I have seen a clear indication of the postcodes and roughly how many live in each. She's got perhaps a slightly subjective impression from the people she knows. Sorry to keep on at such an off topic aspect, too!

[Carbonara]

I am now confused.

Is ED an inner-city area, as per CoachBeth's posts, or a leafy suburb?

[Curmudgeon]

Not that I'm cynical or anything, and tbh I don't particularly care, but how come you've gone from quoting websites to having seen the actual postcodes?

LOL