It is our aim to ensure that children leave CPS at eleven with at least one year’s academic advantage over national expectations for children of similar age. In practice many children achieve a greater advantage than this while the least able children in the year will be just about meeting the expected levels of achievement for their age. Children sit entrance tests for a wide number of local independent schools and many sit the Bucks Grammar School selection tests at 11+. We achieve this without becoming anything like a “hot house”.
Approximately half the year group qualify for Grammar School places. Most children receive an offer from the parents’ first choice independent school at 11+. This is because the school has been carefully chosen to provide the most appropriate academic environment for each child.
As a school we ceased to administer the Key Stage SATs at 7+ and 11+ in 2008. Over the course of a pupil’s career at Chesham Prep School a comprehensive range of formative and summative assessment is used to plot progress and to inform teachers’ planning. At transfer to secondary school at 11+ we are able to provide teacher assessed National Curriculum levels of achievement.
Bucks Secondary Transfer presentation.
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11+ Results
Parents choose whether to enter their children for the Bucks 11+ tests. Please see the table below for our recent results. Not all children who qualify for a Grammar School place go on to take up their place, some children remain in the independent sector.
| Year Group | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-2020 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022 – 23 |
| % who passed the test | 76% | 65% | 76% | 53% | 55% | 89% | 60% |