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

That’s very good for working parents. Is that all year round?

School nursery is approx 9-3 here

My dd only got a school nursery place because someone dropped out even though my ds is at the school and their reason for rejection was other children had siblings at the school.

I'm kinda hoping dd get the same school tomorrow but based on their initial rejection, I'm not holding my breath!

Not with our school, no. The admissions criteria was distance within their catchment, siblings and looked after children. Nursery didn’t come into it.

Attending the nursery doesn’t usually give you any more chance. Is the school oversubscribed?

Admissions policy applies. Our local nursery is attached to a catholic primary, so whilst the nursery is open to all within the community the school is only open to practicing catholics with sign off from the church. If there’s any space left over they would be open to other denominations but usually RC children travel a fair way to attend the primary.

I worked and the school nursery offered 7:30-18:00.

Didn't affect the criteria for school entrance though.

Typically admissions criteria prioritise 1. looked after children (in foster care etc) 2. kids with siblings already at the school 3. distance from the school. But this varies a lot so you will need to look at the admissions criteria for the specific school you are interested in. But I would think it's very unlikely that nursery attendance would be on there. My council also publish the furthest distance away which got the child a place so you might be able to find this on your council's website to get a sense of the distance involved. Not all schools are oversubscribed either.

You need to look at the admissions criteria for the school concerned, it’ll be online, look on the school website. The local authority website may also give you several years worth of previous admissions data so you can see roughly what distance children usually get in from (assuming distance is the key criteria).

Don’t take this wrongly, but given you don’t appear to know the admissions criteria, you have actually followed the admissions process and applied right? Just that I did once come across a parent who had no idea the reason their child had no email offering a place was because she hadn’t actually applied for one.

It would depend on the admission criteria of the school. But, in the case of the school my child attend, no. Having attended the school’s preschool provision bears zero influence on gaining a reception place.

School nursery normally doesn’t give priority because it’s not fair on the kids at private nursery because their parents work.

Hope you get your first choice

No, going to a school nursery doesn't give your child any priority unfortunately.

depends entirely on the admissions criteria, which will be published online. Usually attending the nursery will not be relevant but there are exceptions. You should be able to find this out on the schools website.

they won’t give you the closer school just cos it’s closer. They will rank everyone who wants your first choice school, according to the admissions criteria. Then they’ll take the top 30/60/however many spaces they have. If your child doesn’t get a place based on this, then your second choice will have done the same thing and hopefully he’d get a place there instead.

Surely you have looked into admissions criteria for the school when you applied? But no typically it doesn't hold any weight to your school place application