Secondary Waiting Lists

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FusionChefGeoff · 01/03/2023 06:44

Tell me your good news stories please?! We didn't get any of our preferred choices so I emailed straight away for waiting list for all 3.

Website was very clear not to contact council after this but should I be a squeaky wheel?!?

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SoCrossAboutThis · 01/03/2023 07:02

Being a squeaky wheel is not going to help at all, it won’t move you up the waiting list. You either appeal or you wait to see if you make it to the top.

dd is an adult now but we did not get our first choice. She was 4th on the waiting list, school rang every year saying did we want to stay on the list and we said yes every year. Never got a place.

sydenhamhiller · 01/03/2023 06:57

7 years ago DC1 did not get 1st choice secondary. Was quite high on the waiting list, and we got a call 3 weeks later.

Friend got call for 1st choice secondary for her daughter at the end of August - they had labelled uniform and everything!

So just to say: lots of movement, esp in cities I think, with transient populations.

As to contacting council and being squeaky wheel… no idea I am
afraid, am sure someone will come and advise shortly. Best of luck - DC3 finds out today after 1700! X

Whycanineverever · 01/03/2023 06:51

A few years ago I was given 4th choice. I got 3rd choice late April followed a week later by school 2 and then school 1 on the day before term started. I was 3/mid thirties / mid 40's on lists respectively.

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