We're currently in Scotland but are planning on moving back down to England. Where we currently live in Scotland the system is quite straightforward - your children go to the school in the catchment where you live. High Schools have feeder primaries, so you just automatically move from one to the other. There is some scope to send your children to an out of area school if the school is not oversubscribed.
How does it work in England? Does the school in your catchment area have to take your children if you move there? What if it's full? Do primaries feed into specific high schools, so should I look at the High School league tables and work backwards from there? What if we rent first in one catchment area, get our children into the school and then move out of the catchment? Do we have to move our kids? Do these rules vary between local authorities?
Our situation is further complicated by our eldest having a diagnosis of HF ASD. He is currently taught in mainstream and copes well. He doesn't have a one to one, but the school allow him to e.g. sit out of some PE, eat in a quiet place etc. Do we need to be organising specific paperwork etc. before we move about this? Will this diagnosis give us "priority" when chosing a primary? As I say, he is fine in mainstream but we would need to make sure we got him into the "right" school for his needs.
Any help/guidance much appreciated.
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