Intake and Classes
Being a selective school, in the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex ("CSSE"), entrants are required to pass the eleven plus exam.
The eleven plus exam has a variable pass rate of 3% to 20% depending on the set of students.
The new intake in year 7 consists of 96 pupils, split into three classes of 32. The three forms are given the initials of 7C, 7R and 7G. At the end of the year, when pupils are asked to choose between Greek and German as a language, the groups of pupils are changed around. This changing around of forms continues until year 10, when students are placed in permanent forms for their GCSE courses, unless an express wish of a student, his parents or a teacher cause a particular student to be moved forms. However this is extremely rare.
There is also a small intake of four students at age 13 (after Year 8) to make four classes of roughly 25 (the fourth class taking the initial S).
The sixth form has a separate admissions policy, and its forms are not labelled C, R, G and S but instead 12Aa where Aa is the two letter teacher code of the form tutor. All applicants must achieve 3 A grades and 2 B grades at GCSE to be accepted, whilst external applicants are subject to a competitive admissions process.
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