Re-organisation to a Sixth Form College system may cost less, but will result in the major movement of students and staff from school to school, causing heavy disruption in education for an entire generation of children. This demonstrates conclusively that Kent students in Grammar and High Schools improve performance when compared to the rest of the country, between the ages of 11 and 14.
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DfEE and Kent Ofsted Report January 1999 5. Several of the larger schools are rural comprehensives, not affected by re-organisation. There is national consensus that six forms of entry are needed for a comprehensive school, i.e. 900 plus sixth form. Current government policy that small sixth forms are not effective may require eight forms of entry. Other Costs of Re-organisation Staff redeployment, retraining, early retirement, redundancy.