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Mr. Don Foster
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the secondary schools which are partially selective, indicating those which band their intake; and if he will make a statement. [17762]
Ms Estelle Morris
The Department does not hold comprehensive information on partially selective schools or those which band their intake. Information is available only on those schools which since 1989 have had statutory proposals approved to introduce partial selection and those grant maintained schools which received approval to select up to 10 per cent. of their pupils on the basis of ability or aptitude in certain specified subjects between January 1989 and August 1996. This is provided in the following tables.
| Proposals to Introduce Partial Selection Approved since 1989 | ||
| LEA area | School name | Type of selection |
| Grant maintained | ||
| Barnet | Mill Hill County High School | 30 per cent. by aptitude for technology |
| Bromley | Hayes GM Secondary School | 25 per cent. Selection by ability |
| Berkshire | Southlands School | One selective form of entry (18 per cent.) |
| Dorset | Budmouth GM School | 10 per cent. selection by ability |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | London Oratory School | 20 boys at age 7 on musical and general ability |
| Hertfordshire | Watford Grammar School for Girls | 50 per cent. selection by ability |
| Hertfordshire | Watford Grammar School for Boys | 50 per cent. selection by ability |
| Hertfordshire | Parmiters School | 50 per cent. selection by ability |
| Hertfordshire | Rickmansworth School | 50 per cent. selection by ability |
| Hertfordshire | Chancellors School | 10 per cent. partial selection |
| Kent | Homewood School | 20 per cent. selection by ability |
| Kingston | Holy Cross School | 15 per cent. selection by ability |
| Lambeth | Archbishop Tenison's GM School | banding including 40 per cent. of above average ability |
| Lambeth | St. Martin in the Fields High School | |
| Lambeth | Dunraven GM School | |
| Proposals to Introduce Partial Selection Approved since 1989 | ||
| LEA area | School name | Type of selection |
| Surrey | Roseberry GM Girls's School | 30 per cent. selection on academic ability and 10 places on aptitude for music |
| Wandsworth | Graveney GM School | 50 per cent. selection by ability |
| Wandsworth | Burntwood School | 50 per cent. selection by ability |
| County | ||
| Wandsworth | Ernest Bevin School | Partial Selection |
| Wandsworth | Chestnut Grove School | Partial Selection |
| Wandsworth | Battersea Technology College | Partial Selection |
| Grant maintained schools introducing selection of up to 10 per cent. of their intake between July 1989 to August 1996 | ||
| LEA | School | Nature of change |
| Havering | Abbs Cross School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Bromley | Beaverwood Girls School | 10 per cent. Performing Arts (Music and Dance) |
| Kingston Upon Thames | Beverley School | 10 per cent. Art or Music |
| Hertfordshire | Bishop's Stortford School | 10 per cent. Music, Sport or Drama |
| Kent | Canterbury High School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Kensington and Chelsea | Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Hertfordshire | Chancellors School | 10 per cent. Music, Drama or Sport |
| Kent | Charles Dickens High School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Kent | Chatham Grammar School for Girls | 10 per cent. Music, Sport or Drama |
| Norfolk | Cliff Park High School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Bromley | Cooper's School | 10 per cent. Music, Drama, Dance or Sport |
| Hampshire | Crofton School | Five places Music |
| Hertfordshire | Dame Alice Owen School | 10 per cent. Music or Sport |
| Kent | Dane Court Grammar School | 10 per cent. Music, Sport, Drama or any unusual talent |
| Cambridgeshire | Deacons School | 10 per cent. Technology |
| Lambeth | Dunraven School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Enfield | Enfield Grammar School | 10 per cent. Music or Sport |
| Hertfordshire | Goffs School | 10 per cent. Music, Drama, Sport or Languages |
| Surrey | Heathside School | 10 per cent. Music or Sport |
| Barnet | Hendon School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire and Essex High School | 10 per cent Music, Sport or Drama |
| Surrey | Hinchley Wood School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Bromley | Kemnal Manor School | 10 per cent. Technology |
| Essex | King Edward VI Grammar School | Three places for Choristers |
| Cambridgeshire | Kings' School | 10 per cent. Music and Choristers |
| Lambeth | La Retraite School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Camden | La Sainte Union Convent School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Kent | Langley Park School for Boys | 10 per cent. Music or Sport |
| Hertfordshire | Leventhorpe School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Lincolnshire | Lincoln Christ's Hospital School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Barnet | Mill Hill County School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Hertfordshire | Queen's School | 10 per cent. Music, Art or Sport |
| Kent | Rainham Mark | 10 per cent. Music. Sport, |
| Grammar School | Drama or any unusual talent | |
| Essex | Rainsford High School | 10 per cent. Music or Drama |
| Kent | Robert Naipier School | 10 per cent. Music. Sport, Drama or any unusual talent |
| Kent | St. George's CE School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Surrey | Thamesmead School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Essex | Ursuline Convent School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Kent | Westland High School | 10 per cent. Music |
| Surrey | Winston Churchill School | six per cent. Music |
| Norfolk | Wymondham College | 10 per cent. Music |