Please can someone explain what the legal position and the justification is for some schools to specify catchment areas or priority admission areas, and/or to specify "feeder schools" in their admissions criteria.
I am especially confused as to why this is legal or justified when the catchment isn't in a neat circle around the school, so skewed over to the west for example, or with a cut away bit in it to avoid a certain housing development, or skewed so as to run down a county boundary.
Also confusing me is that only some schools have these catchment areas, so people living in one area are in a catchment area for a school, but those living outside this catchement area aren't in a catchment area for ANY school.
And the same thing with feeder schools- why are some schools feeder schools to a secondary school even if they (and those they admit) aren't necessarily closer to the secondary than those attending non-feeder schools.
It seems like back-door selection to me and I can see how this is legal or justified.
Connect with other parents whose children are starting secondary school on this forum.
Secondary education
Catchment/priority admissions areas and feeder schools- legality and justification
BurnTheBlackSuit · 03/03/2017 10:24
This reply has been deleted
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
This reply has been deleted
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
This reply has been deleted
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.