How To Find Out If A Secondary School Is Any Good

How do I find out if a secondary school is any good?

You've got lots of ways of finding out if a secondary school is good, because they're starting to produce real examination results. They're starting to include people that you can talk to almost as an adult. Looking at it from a distance - look at the Ofsted reports, look at the examination results, look at the prospectus. You can gather from that, and particularly from analytical sites like the Good Schools Guide, how well a school is doing against its peers against the objectives you've set for the school. Are our physics results good; if your child is a budding scientist. Has it really got strong drama - is the music enticing? There's a lot more information there to look at. The core of it though will be getting out there and visiting the school. Again, the only way of really getting to grips with the atmosphere of the school is to be there on the ground and absorb it for yourself.