Three 11-18 schools could rationalise the current catchment areas and provide a local school close to many households. Even with some schools having a specialism, all schools would meet national curriculum requirements and deliver a broad and balanced education to all pupils
The current secondary school catchment areas are shown on this Digimap map:
The two-school catchment areas have yet to be released. Clearly, these would be two large areas where many households are not within walking distance of their assigned school, and require an increased use of school busses for transport.
With three schools, catchment would divide primary schools to their nearest school. Using CfESC figures for primary school forms, and adjusting down by 15% to match the island total of 20 form-entry for the two-school split between 2x 10 form entry schools, would assign primary schools to the following three secondary schools:
| Primary Schools | Forms of entry | Local School | LV | SSHS | LMDC |
| St Mary and St Michael | 1 | SSHS | – | 1 | – |
| Notre Dame du Rosaire | 1.5 | LV | 1.5 | – | – |
| Forest | 1 | LMDC | – | – | 1 |
| Castel | 2 | LMDC | – | – | 2 |
| La Houguette | 2 | LMDC | – | – | 2 |
| Vauvert | 2 | LV | 2 | – | – |
| La Mare de Carteret | 2 | LMDC | – | – | 2 |
| Hautes Capelles | 3 | SSHS | – | 3 | – |
| St Martin’s | 3 | LV | 3 | – | – |
| Vale | 3 | SSHS | – | 3 | – |
| Amherst | 3 | LV | 3 | – | – |
| Total | 9.5 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Adjusted | 8.09 | 5.96 | 5.96 |
This creates a slightly larger entry at Les Varendes, approximately in line with existing school building capacity and the proposed 960 place for a rebuilt La Mare de Carteret school, example pupil figures for 3000 total school places
- St Sampsons, 6FE, approx. 900 places
- La Mare de Carteret, 6FE, approx. 900 places (in secondary school)
- Les Varendes, 8FE, approx. 1200 places
..Which would give catchment areas as follows:
Parents could choose to apply for an out-of-catchment area place if desired, and an acceptance criteria would be needed if any school were oversubscribed for a particular year.