Wandsworth waiting lists - no movement?

I have, Wandsworth are managing the list at the moment. There has been movement on the distance waiting list, but none on the selective waiting list - this seems really unusual as from what I understand there has been a lot of movement in previous years due to children taking up offers at independents and grammars - but not one selective place declined this year as yet?

Does it just take longer than I am expecting to start moving? or is this an unusual year? My dc would have got in on the waiting list in the last 3 years but seeming unlikely this year so far.

Have you tried calling the Graveney registrar?
Previous MN threads suggest there can be movement in the summer term once the welcome day paperwork is sent out

Can anyone advise, it is now 3 weeks since offer day and there has been zero movement? Thanks in advance!

Does anyone know when the Graveney list starts to move (selective)? It is over 2 weeks after state school offer day and we are still the same number on the list!! Can anyone advise? The uncertainty is driving me crazy!

Hi Stircrazyschoolmum, have you heard anything?

Shattered04 Think you've got it in a nutshell there.

Would think that the next round of offers (from initial waiting list) will be where most movement happens and subsequent offers will be a diminshing trickle.

Yep, I was somewhat frustrated to find out that people who applied late and are closer in than us will leapfrog us on the waiting list when the next round happens. As we missed out by 64 metres, it's galling that we were so close and may yet be so far in the next round! And after that second round I think (in our case) that people can apply to go on the waiting list for schools they didn't list in their initial application. So that lot get in ahead of us too.

It's my understanding there are multiple (at least three) rounds of allocations to begin with, a general shuffle each time if you like. Appeals are heard May-July time which means another shuffle too. Then I think after that point it becomes more realtime as there is such little movement they can deal with it on a case by case basis. Happy to be corrected.

LAs have timetables for making second, third and forth round offers. Some of them publish them. You can call the LA and ask them the timetable for the various rounds of offers.

There will be no movement for a couple of weeks after the initial allocations whilst parents respond either accepting or rejecting the offered school.
Then the LA will have a full list of schools with places and start allocating to those place based on the updated waiting list, which will now include people who applied late and who have requested a different school.

I'm sure the letter we had from the school we got at a place at said that could we accept our place by the 15th as that is when they will start to go to waitlists. School is in Fulham but live in Wandsworth.
We will turn it down but I am waiting for the independent's school confirmation in the post before I do as I will panic otherwise. (If I knew it would make a difference to people on the waitlist I would have already done so).

I think they send out the first round of waiting list offers once they have had a chance to collate all the acceptances and declines after the acceptance deadline.

Then there is a ‘late application ‘round in which they add all the late applications into the lists, at which point you can actually go down the list). And the waiting lists progress through the summer.

And that all places go via the LA until the beginning of term in September, when the lists revert to the admissions authority for each school (the school for Academies etc, the LA for community schools).

Hi Stircrazy I don't think they will start offering places from the waiting lists of any state secondaries until after the initial deadline for uptake/decline of school offered (isn't it the 15th March?). I think it would get too confusing - administratively - at this stage to do 'drip' offers.

I recall (some years ago) that DS was very quickly offered his preferred choice school from the waiting list - by the end of March certainly. Direct from the school too but I seem to recall that the Admissions Team from our Council raised an eyebrow at the way we'd been offered it. I think we should have waited to get the offer via them (which I think would have held things up another couple of weeks).

I'd be on the phone to Graveney as soon as the upcoming deadline has passed, otherwise you might be waiting until after the Easter hols.

Good luck!