I have a question about primary school admissions, but a bit different to the usual questions.
My DS started in reception in Sept 2016. Luckily for us we had a genuine choice of schools - we could state 6 preferences, of those I was 99.9% sure we would get a place in at least 3 of them. We have no special circumstances & no sibling link so we were looking at distance to school.
My first preference was for School A (standard community school with usual admission criteria), I checked the furthest distance admitted in previous years and we were at least 100m outside of this (long way in London). Thought I'd chance it as I loved the school so put School A first and a "sure bet" as School B. Low & behold we were offered School A on offers day - celebrations!! I assumed that there must have been a low number of siblings this year.
The admissions data for this year have now been released and according to the data from the council, the furthest admitted from School A is smaller than ever - putting us approx 150m too far away for last year - the year we were admitted.
Now, I know I may have my measurements wrong, but we are only about 450m away so, proportionally these are quite large distances. I am extremely grateful we got a place for DS at this lovely school but I am confused by this anomaly. I'm hoping someone with a lot of admissions knowledge maybe able to explain? PRH, admissions....?
Thank you
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Question About Last Year's Admissions
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SomedayMyPrinceWillCome · 12/10/2016 11:30
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