Skegness Schools

There are two secondary schools in Skegness, The Skegness Grammar School, which is obviously a grammar school and St Clements College a comprehensive school.

The unfortunate thing with St Clements College is the Skegness Grammar School is selective and pretty much gets the top 25% of students from the Skegness and surrounding areas. This has resulted in many of the students at St Clements College listed as requiring special educational needs, lost the source now, but read about 1/4 of their pupils are SEN! From the BBC website almost 35% of the 171 students who sat GCSE’s at St Clements College in 2008 were special needs! In comparison of the 111 students from Skegness Grammar School who sat GCSE’s in 2008, none of them had SEN. So it’s unfair to directly compare these two schools (that being said our experience of both Skegness secondary schools has been far from impressive).

My wife and I have home educated our three sons since birth, that means they have never attended a school, grammar school or otherwise. When we moved to Skegness our eldest son was 15 1/2 years old and doing well in his education: he’s gifted in many areas and finds learning very easy.

He’d been studying from A-Level texts (Mathematics for example) for years and where we moved from we’d arranged to do GCSE’s as an external candidate at a local comprehensive school, but that was no longer an option, so doing GCSE’s fell by the way side (wrong time to move).

With no GCSE’s The Skegness Grammar School which specializes in Maths and Computing (what our eldest son was studying) would not even consider him as an A-Level candidate. The other Skegness comprehensive school in the area St Clements College Skegness isn’t considered a good school (it failed and was closed) and does not offer the A-Levels he required (A-Level Mathematics, A-Level Further Mathematics and A-Level Physics, offered NONE of these!) and so St Clements College wasn’t a realistic option.