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  This Page Last Updated On 16th October, 2009.  
Information Concerning the Structure of Education Delivery in Gloucester.
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.