I've been looking at local secondary schools for DS for next September. My LA has a school distance checker from my address and shows how many km away they are and also the furthest away places have been offered for the last 3 years. None of the schools have offered a place as far away as we are. I feel really stupid when it comes to all this, could somebody explain to me how allocations work? All the schools we are looking at were oversubscribed last year. Admission arrangements state in the case of oversubscription places are allocated with priority going to looked after children, then siblings, staff at school, distance etc. Does this mean that if they get more applications than places all of the places will be decided in that order?
Sorry if this is really stupid but the way I'm reading this all is that DS has a really low chance of getting a place at any of the fairly local schools?
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Toodle · 20/09/2018 10:54
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