To ask the likelihood of your child getting allocated to a school if they already attend the nursery

The reason for not including it as a priority is to give those who have used other forms of childcare, or none, a fair chance of a place in Reception. School nursery hours may not suit these working ft, for example.

We have 30 reception places. 60 children in our nursery. We are aware of 180 applications. Tomorrow will be interesting.

It’s tomorrow ?

When you applied did you put a first and second choice ?

You need to check the admissions criteria tonight and the appeals process OP as it’s likely you won’t get your DC a place just because of nursery.

In my county if you don’t put your catchment school on the form anywhere ( ie as a second reserve choice) the LA can send your child to the nearest school with a place ANYWHERE in county .

Fingers crossed for you that the year group is undersubscribed OP.

Attendance at the pre school for our school choice is actually one of the listed 'criteria' for it.
siblings and distance and additional criteria such as church and pre school are listed for us

Applying to reception is an entirely separate process, very few schools will prioritise children attending the nursery. Have you checked the admissions policy for the school?

Not round here, no. About a third of the kids at our local preschool didn’t get into the school on the same site. It was carnage that morning.

I get your nerves, but, as everyone else has said, this is what you should have read up about in the Autumn Term, long before you put your preferences in, in September.

Wishing you all the best for tomorrow.

As everyone else has said, it is very unlikely. I suppose it is possible for a primary to have a feeder nursery (as some secondaries have feeder primaries - but not very many tbh) but I have never come across it.

Presumably it wasn't mentioned in the admissions criteria if you read them when applying?

Presumably #2 you put the favoured school first on your preference list? If so, and there is a space your DC qualifies for, you will get it. The fact that there is a closer school is neither here nor there in that case. If you don't qualify for the preferred school, you will be offered the next one on your list that you do qualify for - hopefully the very near one.

You need to read your local authority admissions guidance.
In my LA attending the school nursery would have no impact at all.

No guarantee of a place sadly, our son got a place, but others attending did not, the school was regularly over subscribed. Good luck for tomorrow OP, I can remember the relief I felt when DS got his place, as knew his brother would follow. I hope your son gets a place. So much easier if they are similar with the school.

As previous posters said, depends on criteria. A school in our area has an agreement with the council and they do give priority to those who attend the nursery but i think this is rare. In terms of priority dor their admissions it comes after looked after children and siblings but before distance.

Well parents of Nursery children are often surprised when they don't get into Reception at the same school. A lot of people actually have no idea what's going on and never read anything. I've had parents who didn't realise you had to apply for school at all and just turn up in September.

Yes seriously. You’re thinking of this now? It doesn’t matter either way because your chance to do anything about it has well and truly passed. The tine to get a little stressed was when you were listing you preferences.

I’m promise I’m not being rude here but I find it strange that you don’t know this already. I read up on everything when applying for schools in September, perhaps I was a bit OTT 😂

What nursery the child attends is very unlikely to make any difference to school admissions.
Admissions criteria are usually to do with-
looked after children and those with ehcp
distance from school
siblings

Which one is your catchment school? My catchment school wasn't actually the closest one to us.
But as others have said, no, attending the Nursery doesn't come into it, it isn't a decision made by the school but the LEA.
Have a look on your chosen schools website for their admission criteria.
And I hope you get the result you want tomorrow.

You should be able to find last year's admission data which will tell you how many applied and how many got a place etc, to give you a flavour.

My son didn't get a place at reception where he attended nursery school. It was hugely oversubscribed and they gave places based on distance from the school.

The admissions procedure at my school didn't give any priority to children from the school nursery. The children themselves did have an advantage when (if) they started school due to being familiar with the school, the staff and the way things were done generally.

No, it cannot form part of the admissions criteria for a state school.

Never heard of this being part of the admissions criteria.

If the school is a standard school funded by the local authority they will have a very similar admissions criteria to nearly all local authorities which is usually;

1. looked after children (children who are adopted or in foster care)
2. children who have additional needs and that school is the only school who can provide these, this needs to be backed up in writing by a social worker, health worker
3. children who have siblings who live in the same home (so not a half sibling, for example, who doesn’t reside with the RP)
4. distance from the school

Your council website should have more details, including how many children applied the previous year v how many places they had, which should give you an indication on how oversubscribed they are.

The only time I have seen being in the attached nursery is for our local fee charging school.

99/100 it makes no difference to admissions.

You won't get allocated the nearest school of there is a place for you at the school you have prioritised. But you will not be awarded a place at your preferred school above someone who is closer / is a looked after child /has a sibling in the school already.

So basically, it depends on how many places vs applicants your preferred school has.

No, attending the nursery doesn’t usually make any difference I’m afraid.

@BoohooWoohoo yes except for between Christmas and New Year.

It will be the same criteria as when you did the application so whatever you were told/looked up then