To only visit one school?

[KwaziisEyepatch]

Ds1 starts school next September. We live 150metres from a great school, one of the reasons we bought this house. We're on the boundary of the catchment for the next closest, equally great school - some years we'd get in, some we wouldn't.

I've never been to either school but know lots of local mums who speak well of them both. Aibu not to bother visiting the one further away, when ds is bound to get into the closer one, and all his friends will go there? We're never going to choose the further school, but everyone keeps telling me I should visit more than one 'for comparison'. I don't get it!

[KwaziisEyepatch]

We looked at our local authority website mudder, they publish all the catchments from previous years.

We'll go and visit both, better to be safe than sorry. It's a two-form entry at the local one but I'm inevitably now going to spend the next 6 months panicking about sibling intake!

[CromerSutra]

I visited a couple of schools for primary but only one for secondary for similar reasons to the ones you state. It has worked out fine in both cases. It's up to you really!