Anyone been through this?
We live in an area where 3 councils all border. As such although we are at primary with the same postcode, it's under a different borough. It's a feeder school for an excellent high school which is 9 miles away from where we live. Local comp is 3 miles away and not great.
Feeder school children do take priority if it's oversubscribed - over distance. So moving to be close to the school wouldn't make a difference in that case.
However, this year a friend was rejected because she lived out of area and was given a school in the same borough instead. Honestly believe if she'd been living in the area and at the feeder school her child would have got in.
Do we move now to be in the same borough or do we hang fire and hope that the school has spaces?
Also just to add a problem into the mix, child has SEN so already been warned local council won't want to be 'paying' for a child living in their area to go to a school in another borough - is this true?