Product Description

Featuring over 1,000 schools covering ages five to eighteen, "The Good Schools Guide" spans both the private and state sectors. The guide covers each school's background and atmosphere, strengths and weaknesses, together with much factual detail and educational advice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33686 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-16
• Binding: Paperback
• 1200 pages

Review
Like its predecessors, it is based on visits and the views of parents, pupils and staff. It is just as untroubled by the sensibilities of schools -- and as cavalier in the face of squawks from those it has offended. --TES

Review
Compared to the emotional and financial cost of making the wrong choice, your funny and opinionated guide is the best money I have spent on my child all year. Thank you so much.

Review
Unique among the many guides available, it sets out to give frank answers to the questions every parent asks. It told the truth.

Customer Reviews

Only the good schools
This book is useful and informative if you happen to have several good schools in your area. It would be a great help in starting to work out which you'd like your child to attend. It turns out we don't have any good schools near us, and as it's only the GOOD schools guide, we're left with no information at all about what they think about the best of the rest. There's a map at the front showing the location of good schools (interestingly, they cluster together) which we will consult closely if we ever move house, but as it is, we live in a blank area and are none the wiser as to what the schools available to us are like.

Fun to read and very opinionated!
Wonderful guide. I'd bought their SEN guide before which was good, but this includes a lot more schools. Some interesting advice, especially about how you can tell if your school is going to close suddenly - could be useful given the economic climate (although I REALLY hope not!!). The best part is the school reviews though. I thought it might be only private schools, but there were loads of state ones too which was just what we were looking for.

The Good Schools Guide
This book is a must have aid to parents trying to navigate the quagmire of choosing the right school for their little darlings. While I think Ofsted assesses the bones of a school such as how many teachers, subjects taught and so on...The Good Schools Guide uncovers its heart. I read the write up of my children's school and I was dazzled by its accuracy. It portrayed the culture of the place, warts and all, really well. I am in the throes of looking at schools again and so I am busy referring to the latest edition often. I am confident I will know what I am signing up in our next school, regardless of what it says on tin, using the Good Schools guide to get the inside track. When it comes to knowing schools, The good schools guide definitely gets top marks from me.