Ok I know I might be I am getting a little ahead of myself. DD is currently in P2 at our lovely local primary school. She is very happy there and we like our area and our house. We moved here 3 years ago from another part of the city and a big part of this was to do with the local schools (also more house for our money as further away from city centre).
The problem is with our catchment secondary school. I just assumed the the secondary school across the road from us (157 ft according to google maps) would be our catchment school but no. It appears our catchment school is 1.9 miles away (as the crow flies but actually longer due to akward bus route - bus there takes 35 mins non rush hour and about 55 mins in rush hour) and to be honest it is not a great school.
I have recently found all this out as I was talking to my neighbour who's DS is due to start there in August. I know most the neighbour children do go to the non catchment school and it looks like currently all children from DD's primary school do get in with a placing request. I think that's why I didn't initially check that it was actually the catchment school or not. Silly me, I know.
Now the issue I have is should we stay put and hope that in 5 years time things will still be the same and DD will get into the school across the road or do we move to another house within catchment or move elsewhere with equally good schools?
I know there are some big housing developments underway (1.3 miles away) that will fall under the catchment area for the school across the road. There is every chance in 5 years time the school will not have spaces for any placing request children (even if they live 157ft from the school and can look right into some of the classrooms from the living room window).
If we do decide to move areas when do you think is best?
I'm thinking P6 so DD should have a couple of years to make new friends before moving to secondary school.
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FuckOffJeffrey · 11/05/2016 11:01
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