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What are the chances of winning appeal on these ground

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Salpal9 · 22/05/2025 20:04

Secondary school appeal - Single parent, school appealing to is a 5 minute walk away, allocated school almost 4 miles away. Have a child in primary school, impossible to get to allocated school and pick primary child up. Child's cousin lives next door and has a place in appeal school and child's parents would help with child care as still have to pick primary child up.

What are the chances on appeal with the above?

Thanks in advance.

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Treeleaf11 · 22/05/2025 20:21

Would you not get school transport to a school 4 miles away?
You say a cousin lives next door and goes to the appeal school. Has a mistake been made with allocation or is the cousin in a higher oversubscription criteria?
(I'm not sure if you did win the appeal why you would need childcare from cousins parents for a school 5 mins away).

Y2ker · 22/05/2025 20:18

How small is the catchment area that your child didn't get in only living 5 mins away?!

BendingSpoons · 22/05/2025 20:10

They will expect your DC to make their own way to school. Logistics won't win an appeal. You need to look at what in particular that school offers that would particularly benefit your DC.

LinkedinLovely · 22/05/2025 20:07

Little to none, at secondary they don't care about how your child gets there. You have to prove that that school is the best and only school for your child, academically, or possibly socially, and that the school you have can't support them. Sorry, it's tough.

There will be some movement before September, and even after that, if you can hold your nerve.

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