Bangor Grammar School

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Bangor Grammar School

• Admissions
• in 2010

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Admissions Criteria

• Academic criteria
• Non Academic criteria
• applied when...
• there are more applicants within one grade than
  there are places.

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Admissions Criteria

• Admissions Number 100
• Grade A applicants 60
• Grade B1 applicants 10
• Grade B2 applicants 20
• Grade C1 applicants 25

• Places remaining
• 40
• 30
• 10
• Apply non-academic criteria

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Admissions Criteria

• Existing Criteria 2009
• Transfer test Grade A, B1, B2 etc.
• Connor House
• Sons of staff
• Boys with brothers at the School or sisters at
  Glenlola
• Boys whose brothers used to attend the School
• Boys whose Fathers were pupils
• Specified primary schools
• North Down Borough residents
• Proximity to School (OSNI measured)

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Grade

• covers a range of marks / scores.
• A
• Top 25 of candidates

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AQE 2010?

• Score
• age adjusted
• standardised
• represented as a deviation from the mean

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AQE 2010?

• Mean 100
• Score gt100
• Score lt100

• e.g. 119.2
• e.g. 92.1
• Degree of discrimination
• not yet determined.

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Criteria v.1

• Scores in AQE Test by rank order

• Connor House
• Sons of staff
• Brothers at BGS or sisters at Glenlola
• Brothers former pupils
• Fathers former pupils
• Specified primary schools
• North Down Borough
• Distance

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AQE 2010?

• Ministers Guidance
• Recommended first criterion
• Applicants who are entitled to Free School Meals
  (FSME)
• priority to be given so that the proportion of
  such children admitted is not less than the
  proportion of first preference FSME applications
  received within the total number of first
  preference applications received.
• Still in consultative form.

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AQE 2010?

• Sibling
• Eldest child
• Feeder Primary school
• Parish
• Catchment area
• Nearest suitable school
• Random selection

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Criteria v.2

• Connor House
• Sons of staff
• Brothers at BGS or sisters at Glenlola
• FSME applicants
• Brothers former pupils
• Fathers former pupils
• Specified primary schools
• North Down Borough
• Distance

• Scores in AQE tests by rank order

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Criteria v.3

• Applicants in receipt of Free School Meals
• AQE scores in rank order

• Connor House
• Sons of staff
• Brothers at BGS or sisters at Glenlola
• Brothers former pupils
• Fathers former pupils
• Specified primary schools
• North Down Borough
• Distance

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Criteria v.3

• A number of places will be reserved for
  applicants in receipt of Free School Meals. This
  number will be calculated as a percentage of the
  125 places available, equivalent to the overall
  percentage of FSM applicants within the total
  application.
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• 10 (?) places will be reserved for applicants who
  are in receipt of free school meals (FSM) and
  allocated to the FSM applicants who have achieved
  the highest scores in strict rank order.
• OR

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Criteria v.4

• FSM
• Connor House
• (Specific number/
• age calculated as equivalent to the number of
  CH pupils applying??)

• Sons of staff
• Brothers at BGS or sisters at Glenlola
• Brothers former pupils
• Fathers former pupils
• Specified primary schools
• North Down Borough
• Distance

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Criteria v.5

• AQE scores in rank order to place, say, 80 of
  the available places (100 places out of 125)
• Place the next 38 applicants in the rank order
  (30) in a band.
• Apply non-academic criteria.

• FSM
• Connor House
• Sons of staff
• Brothers at BGS or sisters at Glenlola
• Brothers former pupils
• Fathers former pupils
• Specified primary schools
• North Down Borough
• Distance

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Other Issues

• Arrangements for the tests
• Special Provisions
• Special Circumstances