School Comparison Worksheet

/ / SCHOOL COMPARISON WORKSHEET Student: Year Group: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACADEMIC CRITERIA Criterion School 1 School 2 School 3 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Exam results (GCSE 5+/4+) [XX%] [XX%] [XX%] Exam results (A-Level A*-B) [XX%] [XX%] [XX%] Progress 8 score [X.XX] [X.XX] [X.XX] Student-teacher ratio [X:1] [X:1] [X:1] Ofsted rating [Rating] [Rating] [Rating] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS Criterion School 1 School 2 School 3 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Distance from home [X] miles [X] miles [X] miles School hours [Times] [Times] [Times] Uniform cost £[Amount] £[Amount] £[Amount] School meals cost £[Amount] £[Amount] £[Amount] Transport available [Y/N] [Y/N] [Y/N] After-school clubs [Number] [Number] [Number] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ETHOS AND ENVIRONMENT Criterion School 1 School 2 School 3 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── School ethos [Brief] [Brief] [Brief] Specialisms [List] [List] [List] SEN provision [Summary] [Summary] [Summary] Extracurricular offer [Summary] [Summary] [Summary] Parent involvement [Summary] [Summary] [Summary] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS After visiting each school, note your impressions: School 1: [Your impressions] School 2: [Your impressions] School 3: [Your impressions] Which school felt right for your child? Why? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY DECISION FACTORS List the three most important factors for your decision: 1. 2. 3. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Take your time with this decision. The best school is the one that feels right for your child.