Any Bath mums around? Question about secondaries

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Hi, we’re moving to Bath and have a boy and a girl. I’m impressed by Hayesfield for DD who is due to start secondary in a few years but wondered what the catchment is like, how likely is a place if you live further out yet within the city boundary? We’re looking at the Southdown area. Thank you!

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@Pleasehelpimexhausted Secondary Admissions Booklet 2024-25 (bathnes.gov.uk) has got all the information and recent catchment distances. There are girls in my DD's year who live in Southdown but I don't know the category they got in on (may have had siblings, parents who worked in the school, were sporty etc)
It's very popular locally so is oversubscribed and has a relatively small catchment as it's in a high density residential area.
When we were moving house the admissions office were able to tell us which schools we would have got places in for previous years.

I only just came across this so I don't know whether it's too late but you are more likely to get in by being in one of the villages just out of the boundary than being on the edge but within the boundary. The 80% inner boundary only goes around 1.8 miles out, whereas the 20% outer boundary goes 6-8 miles out.

Hayesfield for a girl and Beechen Cliff for your Son. Choose wisely where you live. Avoid Twerton, Southdown and Whiteway