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Waiting list movement September onwards

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frowner · 02/09/2019 17:10

My daughter is currently on the waiting list for her first choice school which is a grammar school. Does anyone have any experience of waiting lists moving after term starts, she’s currently 6th.

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user1493494961 · 03/09/2019 13:27

I don't think there will be much movement for a grammar school to be honest, especially in Warwickshire.

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frowner · 03/09/2019 11:07

Thank you for all the responses. It’s an intake of 150 so one of the smaller schools. Warwickshire council have said that they hold the waiting list until December and then the school manages it thereafter. We will just have to sit tight and see what happens.

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Iusedtobecarmen · 02/09/2019 22:54

In my experience I disagree. Eldest was number 6 on waiting list for grammar(if I remember rightly). I got very excited but he only moved up 2 places by the Christmas
By then he was settled in the comprehensive. It's Birmingham though and the grammar system is mental

PatriciaHolm · 02/09/2019 22:27

...oh and check on how long they keep the list for, if you would move her later in the year. They only have to keep it until the end of the first term, though many will keep it for the first year.

PatriciaHolm · 02/09/2019 22:25

Depends on the school tbh, and the size of the intake. 240 vs 120 for example makes a big difference.

And ringing the school repeatedly will have no effect. School cannot influence the waiting list, you are where you are. Being seen to be keen is irrelevant.

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frowner · 02/09/2019 18:30

Thank you for the advice. We have definitely been positive about her allocated school, it isn’t a bad school by any means just not the one she had hoped to go to.

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HandsOffMyRights · 02/09/2019 17:53

There will be movement in some grammars especially in these first weeks. In others there may be less (may also be woth popping on the 11 plus forum and posting there, including name of the school).

Some keep the waiting list open to the end of the year.

Make sure to big up her current school and be positive though just in case.

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frowner · 02/09/2019 17:38

Thank you, that’s promising to hear. There has been very little movement of the summer so we are losing hope of her getting a place.

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Legomadx2 · 02/09/2019 17:29

Yep there will be loads of movement over the first term. Hold tight and hold your nerve!

(and keep ringing the registrar and reiterating how desperately keen you are).

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