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I'm sure for-profit schools can work, but this one is a textbook example of 'everything that can go wrong' if a school starts prioritising money over the kids. I fell for the marketing without realising their advertised IB scores are at the cost of only allowing half the kids to go on to IB while the rest are not offered any alternative that can get them into university (which I guess the school could then be ranked on). I moved my daughter to a different school after a year as she hated it - turned out there were lots of ex SIS kids at the school who were all jokingly referred to as the 'SIS refugees' by the other kids (not in a mean way, more just an observation of the sheer numbers fleeing the school). Avoid - class sizes huge, atmosphere awful, all the good teachers fleeing the school too.

Had kids attend there for over 10 years, The school was wonderful. It advertised itself as 'proudly non selective' and when I initially asked about the entry requirements the response was 'everyone is welcome'. The headmaster was excellent, very personable and had time for everyone.

Then the school was taken over by a for profit corporation named Inspired.

Out went the Headmaster and in came a 'CEO'. Kids becane profitability units, and the school embarked on introducing selection, both at entry, and, more importantly at age 16. A significant proportion of 16 year-olds are now no longer offered to continue with the IB program. The school naturally states 'not in best interests of all students to continue with IB', reality is the school is using selection to only allow the higher performing students to continue to IB so that it can advertise higher IB scores.

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