or just overly entitled? school places...

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

We moved back to the UK last week. A month or so ago, I applied for a school place for our 12 YO DD.
The day after we arrived, me and DH visited the council offices to see which school she'd been allocated to. The man in the offices told us he didn't know, but could we go to one of them and ask.
We did. The school itself didn't know since the admissions officer was on holiday, which in my opinion is ridiculous.
Yesterday, we went to county hall. A round trip of 140 miles. We found out that DD 'may' be placed by the end of September. That is a whole month after school starts.
So, AIBU to think I should know where she is going for the next five years.

We didn't get any of our three choices for Infant and were going through appeals and making late applications. Esp. with popular schools, I was/am very surprised that there was no one at all in the office between the last day of the Summer Term and the beginning of September.

*I wasn't moving from abroad BTW, this was just a county-county move.

Still the same hoops though.

When DS was about to start primary school (Reception) we got a phone-call mid summer hols to say that a place had become available at our first choice school. Mid August I'm sure (trying to remember back that many years!)...which would tend to suggest that there are 'bods' around in the Education Depts at the Council.

It might, however, depend upon your locality - in London and the environs there's such a lot of population coming and going that I would have thought that School Admissions have to be available all year round - and especially during July/August!