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The Options
These are the options for city secondary schooling to go to public consultation over the coming months. There will be 18 meetings in total.
Cluster One: Barnwood Park, Central Technology College, Ribston Hall and The Crypt. Currently provide 2,700 places.
Option 1: (A) Create a new mixed 600 place grammar school and sixth form from the closure of Crypt and Ribston. Removes 600 selective places.
Option 1: (B) And/or create a new mixed 900 place 11-16 comprehensive from closure of Barnwood Park and Central. Removes 600 comprehensive places.
Option 2: Create a new boys 750 place 11-16 comprehensive from the closure of Crypt and Central. Retain Barnwood Park as matching girls 750 place 11-16 comprehensive. Change Ribston to a mixed 600-place grammar school. Removes 600 selective places.
Option 3: Create two new mixed 750 place 11-16 comprehensives from closure of Crypt, Ribston, Barnwood Park and Central. Removes 1,200 places.
Cluster Two: Brockworth, Chosen Hill and Churchdown. Currently provide 3,300 places.
Option 1: Reduce Churchdown, Chosen Hill and Brockworth each by 30 places per year. Removes 450 comprehensive places.
Option 2: Close Brockworth sixth form and establish sixth form provision between Churchdown and Chosen Hill.
Option 3: Establish collaborative sixth form provision between Brockworth, Churchdown and Chosen Hill.
Cluster Three: High School for Girls, Oxstalls and Sir Thomas Rich's. Currently provide 2,100 places.
Option 1: Close Oxstalls and re-open as a new school with a different status.
Option 2: Close Oxstalls and transfer Churchdown to the Oxstalls site at its current capacity. Removes 900 comprehensive places.
Option 3: Create a new mixed 900-place comprehensive and sixth form and a new mixed 600-place grammar and sixth from closing Oxstalls, High School for Girls and Sir Thomas Rich's. Removes 600 selective places. Option 4: Create a new mixed 600 place grammar school and sixth form by the closure of the High School for Girls and Sir Thomas Rich's. Removes 600 selective places.
Cluster Four: Beaufort Community School, St Peters Catholic High School and Severn Vale. Currently provide 3,450 places.
Option 1: Close Beaufort sixth form and further develop sixth form provision for south of the city, including St Peters.
Option 2: Reduce the intake of St Peters by 30 places per year. Removes 150 comprehensive aided places.
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