What happens if you dont get any offers for 11plus in independent schools around the south east

nnnnnnun · 2025-11-27T07:59:26+00:00

Little worried as we didnt apply to many schools

HawaiiWake · 02/12/2025 14:58

Araminta1003 · 02/12/2025 10:27

There will always be a prep to 13 where you can go for years 7&8 and then figure it out? Also, plenty of state schools are better than many private schools.
Applying to 3 schools should be enough, that is enough pressure/enough exams for a kid to sit. You should have made sure No 3 was a proper back up.
In this climate with VAT, private education is no longer as competitive unless you have gone for the most academic ones in eg West or North London. If so, more fool you, unless your kid is a genius.

Would like to add a point that London day private schools are competitive since boarding schools fees are higher plus 20%. So those that would have gone boarding are now looking at day. The prep option for year 7 and 8 is very good suggestion as back up. If you add the names of schools you apply MN can suggest other specific options?

Araminta1003 · 02/12/2025 10:27

There will always be a prep to 13 where you can go for years 7&8 and then figure it out? Also, plenty of state schools are better than many private schools.
Applying to 3 schools should be enough, that is enough pressure/enough exams for a kid to sit. You should have made sure No 3 was a proper back up.
In this climate with VAT, private education is no longer as competitive unless you have gone for the most academic ones in eg West or North London. If so, more fool you, unless your kid is a genius.

Pipsquiggle · 30/11/2025 16:59

@nnnnnnun would you consider boarding schools as an option?

CurlewKate · 27/11/2025 16:57

Wheresmatty · 27/11/2025 15:01

Unfortunately, in the UK, if you don’t get in then children are forced down the pit with a paraffin lamp and a Canary.

Canary? You were lucky-some of us only got a sparrow and some peroxide……

Wheresmatty · 27/11/2025 15:01

Unfortunately, in the UK, if you don’t get in then children are forced down the pit with a paraffin lamp and a Canary.

MeridaBrave · 27/11/2025 14:58

If you applied for state schools and don’t get one of the ones you applied for you’ll likely be allocated any that are not fully subscribed, hence it’s usually an error not to fill all 6 spots on the form.

ilovepixie · 27/11/2025 14:56

Obviously a wind up thread. The OP’s grasp of English and comprehension is shocking. Either a typical upper class thick as mince type, or new money, pop star, only fans type!

mimbleandlittlemy · 27/11/2025 14:36

Muggle household, but optimistic that an owl will turn up soon.

mimbleandlittlemy · 27/11/2025 14:36

YYYDlilah · 27/11/2025 14:28

@mimbleandlittlemy ,did you try it?

Of course I did!

YYYDlilah · 27/11/2025 14:28

@mimbleandlittlemy ,did you try it?

mimbleandlittlemy · 27/11/2025 14:25

YYYDlilah · 27/11/2025 12:36

Try [email protected] and see if they can magic up a place for you.

Edited

So sad that's not a real link 😀

UmmH · 27/11/2025 12:51

Move them to a prep that goes up to year 8, then try again.

YYYDlilah · 27/11/2025 12:36

Try [email protected] and see if they can magic up a place for you.

YYYDlilah · 27/11/2025 12:18

Have you applied to Greyfriars? Arnold House and Dotheboys are too far north.

SheilaFentiman · 27/11/2025 12:09

Taking this at face value (...) do a late application NOW for state and then you will at least have that in your back pocket if you need to trawl for other private schools once results of 11+ tests are out

YYYDlilah · 27/11/2025 12:06

Is that you, Catherine?

If it is, you might be able to get places for your 3 within easy distance of your new home. Grove Academy - All Through School - Slough

Rocknrollstar · 27/11/2025 12:03

nnnnnnun · 27/11/2025 08:11

We dont do state.

Then you needed to apply to more private schools.

thecalmsea · 27/11/2025 11:36

Why are you dignifying this low effort troll with responses?

CurlewKate · 27/11/2025 11:34

You send your child to state school? But I’m pretty sure you could find a private school with spaces. Maybe not the sort you were hoping for, though.

Palourdes · 27/11/2025 11:31

IBorAlevels · 27/11/2025 08:34

Clearly a wind up thread. Why do people actually fall for this though? Which parent willing to pay £k's for their kid would not apply or know anything about the application process and barely write in full sentences? People, use some critical thought please.

Well, I thought ‘We don’t do state’ was hilarious.

thecalmsea · 27/11/2025 11:29

Clear troll post.

Yes, parents who send their kids to private schools really are that arrogant and stupid that they dont apply to state schools as backup and have no idea about waiting lists and contacting schools directly. 🙄 yawn, try harder labour party activist.

Yellowingtrees · 27/11/2025 11:29

private schools are weeping for kids - entrance requirements at most of them are collapsing - don't worry, your money will be welcomed at plenty of schools...

GreenWheat · 27/11/2025 11:26

Gosh, you are remarkably ignorant of the options for a parent who has paid for their child to go through private prep school. One might almost say unbelievably so....

Kitmanic · 27/11/2025 11:21

I thought private schools were on their knees following the VAT thing?

MarchingFrogs · 27/11/2025 11:18

Have you actually been turned down by all the schools for which you applied, or are you just worried that your DC may have performed significantly less well in academic assessments and / or interviews than you expected / hoped?

'Around the South East' is such a broad geographical area, and probably the part of the country with the greatest concentration of fee-paying schools, that there will probably be a few somewhere not already overburdened with applicants, which will accept a late entrant.

Ensuring that your DC is provided with a suitable education is your responsibility, though. Asking your local authority to find a place for them in a state school, taking your expressed preferences into account (albeit with no obligation to offer a specific preferred school, or any listed at all, if none ranks your DC high enough against its published oversubscription criteria) is one way that you can achieve this, but if you insist on not 'doing state', then your other options are, as others have said, to find an independent school which will offer your DC a place, or to organise home education.