I may have mentioned before that special needs (usually for behaviour reasons) children who started off at a local RC school on a London overspill estate tended to arrive at ours after exclusion.

Because of our well-deserved reputation for provision for special needs? Maybe. We continue to have good reports for added value, but not the sort of results other schools with fewer than a third special needs children.

You need to look at input as well as output.

Penny