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No school offer

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souplady · 07/03/2020 08:17

We have these schools we applied to.

A. State Grammar school out of area.
b. state comprehensive out of area.
C. Over subscribed state comprehensive out of catchment.
D. Private school academic scholarship. Not enough to pay fees.

We didn't apply to the local comprehensive as it's not the sort of school I want for my child. We live in a small town with a lot of deprivation concentrated on one estate on the edge of town but our suburb is not deprived.

We don't know what to do now as we have no school place for September. The schools we want all start in September, our local compl starts a year later.

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souplady · 07/03/2020 08:29

We are on the waiting lists for all except the private school and the local comprehensive as we didn't list that, it's in a middle school area which is why it starts a year later.

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underneaththeash · 07/03/2020 08:28

Your options are:

  1. Go on waiting lists for all your preferred schools and add to waiting list for the state comp that you don't like nearby. Waiting lists do move, although you may find that you're too far down the waiting list to get a place at your preferred schools.
  2. Move house.
  3. Pay for private school
  4. Homeschool.
  5. Appeal for your preferred schools.
BikeRunSki · 07/03/2020 08:21

our local compl starts a year later.

I don’t understand this. Does it mean your local comp starts at Year 8? Or it isn’t built yet? Are the other schools middle schools that start younger than Y7?

Milicentbystander72 · 07/03/2020 08:21

Have asked about getting onto waiting lists? Have you literally been given no place at all? Have you rung the school admissions dep at your LEA to ask for help?

I'm sorry I don't understand by what you mean about the schools you want starting this Sept but the local comp starting a year later.

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