Draft:Imperial Maths School

• Comment: Only cites the school's own website as source. DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:55, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

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Imperial College London Mathematics School
Address
Woodhouse Road Barnet London , N12 9EY England
Information
Type	Free school sixth form
Established	1 September 2022 (2022-09-01)
Founder	David Lee
Local authority	Barnet
Trust	Frontier Learning Trust
Specialist	Mathematics
Department for Education URN	149733 Tables
Head Teacher	David Lee
Gender	Mixed
Age	16 to 19
Capacity	200
Website	https://www.imperialmathsschool.ac.uk/

Imperial Maths School, previously Imperial College London Mathematical School, or IMS/ICLMS, is a maths school located in the Barnet area of London, England and a part of the Frontier Learning Trust. It joins the existing highly selective maths schools such as Exeter Mathematics School and University of Liverpool Mathematics School, which consistently achieve some of the highest A-Level results in the country. Imperial Maths School is run in partnership with Imperial College London to provide high quality mathematics education in London. The school aims to widen participation in the mathematical sciences by supporting young people from backgrounds currently under-represented in these fields.

The school opened in 2023 and specialises in mathematics and sciences. It has an approximate 10-20% acceptance rate. In 2023, the school received nearly 500 applications for 60 places. All prospective students are invited to take a written mathematics aptitude test. Those with a high score on the test are invited to an interview that consists of a personal interview and a mathematics interview.

Prospective students are required to obtain GCSE qualifications at grade 8 or 9 in Mathematics and either grade 7-7 or above in Combined Science or grade 7 or above in Physics or a grade 7 or above in Chemistry, depending on whether they chose Physics or Chemistry for their third A-Level. In addition, prospective students are required to obtain a grade 5 or above in English Language or English Literature as well as an average of grade 7 or greater, calculated for the best six GCSEs if they are doing 3 A-Levels, or an average of grade 7.5 or greater, calculated for the best 8 GCSEs including English Language and Maths.

The course structure of IMS requires all students to study A-levels in mathematics, further mathematics and physics or chemistry. Students may select a fourth A-Level to study at Woodhouse College, another school in the Frontier Learning Trust, such as Computer Science, French and Philosophy. In their first year, students are to undergo an extended research project and publish a scientific report and present this to Imperial College London. Selections of the project range from researching the connection between Galaxy Rotation Curves and Dark Matter to Period Doubling and Chaos in Nonlinear maps. In their second year, students can engage with a unique programme of masterclasses which cover topics such as general relativity, Fourier analysis and algebraic structures such as groups, and also have the option to complete an independent research project.

Imperial Maths School have several outreach programmes in order to inspire more secondary school students to pursue a higher education in maths and sciences, such as partnering with Axiom Maths (formerly MESME) to deliver Maths Circles to Key Stage 3 students, where students explore problem solving methods. Axiom Maths is a charity that works with state schools to provide a richer education in mathematics. They also offer Maths Extra, a course for Year 11 students, designed to extend students' understanding of GCSE mathematics and mathematical problem solving.