Chesham Grammar School A GSG School
- Chesham Grammar School
White Hill
Chesham
Buckinghamshire
HP5 1BA - Head: Ms Annmarie McNaney BA Hons
- T 01494 782854
- F 01494 775414
- E office@cheshamgrammar.org
- W www.cheshamgrammar.org
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in Buckinghamshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Buckinghamshire
- Pupils: 1,324; sixth formers: 210
- Religion: Does not apply
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 12th March 2014
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Parents keen on the CGS learning style. ‘They do drum it into the children that they need to work hard but it’s not high pressure. They have such good rapport with teachers by the sixth form,’ said one. Expectations and standards on a par with local single-sex grammars ‘but we prefer the approach at CGS – it’s healthier and more sustainable, I’ve never felt like they hothouse them'. Turns out children who can stand on their own two feet, said one parent, another glad it ‘doesn’t feel like it’s just about tests – you don’t hear about children with too much stress’. Although one parent cautioned, ‘it would be quite intense for those who just scraped through the 11-plus’...
What the school says...
Entrance examination consists of CEM 11+ test administered on behalf of all Bucks grammar schools by local authority.
Previously Chesham High School, converted to an academy 2011.
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Curricula
Cambridge Pre-U - an alternative to A levels, with all exams at the end of the two-year course.
School associations
State grammar school
Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2015, Annmarie McNaney BA PGCE. Educated at Bristol University (theology and sociology), then taught at a large comprehensive near Bristol. Joined CGS as head of sixth form in the 1990s, subsequently assistant then deputy head. Lives in Berkhamsted with her husband and two sons, both CGS alumni, which gave her ‘a unique perspective – I was always asking myself, “How is this as a parent, as well as a headteacher?”’
‘Stand-out compared to the heads at other schools we visited,’ said one parent. ‘Very impressed by her.’ As were we: there’s a human touch to this head, who talks emotionally about a former pupil who made a particular impact on her and who always thanks a bus driver because ‘good manners cost nothing’. Respect for her pupils means it’s reciprocated....
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Berkhamsted Pre-Prep and Prep School | 2024 | 1 |
| Heatherton School | 2024 | 2 |
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