And last year fully 223 of its 224 leavers went into employment, education or training.
It was conceived four years ago when teacher Steve Burrowes was looking for gifts to give to Year 11 leavers.
Our family day policy allowed me to attend my youngest son's year 6 leavers' assembly, a tissue-heavy event.
And James Purnell, tipped as a future Labour leader when he was work and pensions secretary under Gordon Brown, has quit aged 40.Other leavers, too, were defining in their various ways.
I'm currently setting up 42 new starters, closing down 19 leavers, checking 35 changes, and have three queries on overpayments (all caused by inefficient managers) but I can't persuade HR or managers to provide the accurate information I need to resolve them, so I'm under pressure from the payees.
Amongst the Year 4 leavers, the student with the poorest academic record had been a late interviewee but scored 14/16 and said to be "bright, mature".
Reasons for considering leaving were offered by the subset of respondents who agreed that they were seriously considering leaving their current SFES position (n = 20 Leavers, IRR = 98%) and are described in nine categories in Table 3.
About a fifth of the 89 leavers who had originally joined through a reciprocal arrangement left aged 60 to 69 (11.2%) or 70 and over (10.1%), but the majority were young, between 22 and 29 (49.4%) and 30 and 39 (23.6%).
As 40 participants (33 school leavers and 7 graduates) completed the tests at both application and at entrance, test/retest reliability coefficients could be calculated and these also are given in Table 1.
We studied: a) 217 and 96 applicants to the Nottingham 5- and 4-year courses respectively, applying in the 2002-3 Ucycleycle, and, b) 246 school leavers starting the 5-year course and 39 graduate entrants to the 4-year course in October 2003.
