to be really confused about thinking of moving to Bognor Regis?

[Confusedmartie999]

Currently live in Horsham, son has a lovely catholic school to start in September, one intake of 30 a year.
Problem is there is no catholic secondary school anywhere near which is a problem for us being a practising family.
The secondary's near are leatherhead ( could never afford ) and barnham ( a good option as my mother and brother are in Chichester.
We are stuck in a tenancy until March now however the local catholic primary do have a place and he could start in January as oppose to September so only 2 months of driving the 60 mile round trip.
We would then have to really hope that a decent rental came up at the time we need it as the journey is too far / will cost too much in petrol to do for any longer than those 2 months.
My issue is that the school we have got id high performing, 90% of children achieving level 4 or above as oppose to 48% in the other one. The other one also teach in mixed ability classes through year 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6 which the current one dont and on our visit to the new possible one the headteacher informed me that currently around 50% of children are non English speaking on entry ( mainly Eastern European ) which was almost used as the reason for the low results.
The upside would be being closer to family, affording a 3 bed rental rather than 2 bed and hopefully the children would make some friends they would take over to secondary whereas here they won't have anyone starting secondary with them as the kids all go onto either private education or single sexed schools neither of which we can do / want.
I'm really confused, my husband says 5 years is a long time to go to a not great school ( he mainly disliked the fact that because it's right in bognor town it's very comcrete and they have no grass playing areas whereas the current one has masses ) and my mum says to think of the kids at 11 knowing nobody going to secondary school :-(

You are right, I just wish we could afford the 3 bed here and then I would be happier staying

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-34938984.html

you can - and that took all of 30 seconds.....

That was so cheap as only a 6 month let whilst landlord was travelling :(

Its not the only one.
m.primelocation.com/to-rent/details/37074574?search_identifier=e3bad03433ff61f235a45f5a5754d005
Or
m.primelocation.com/to-rent/details/30196771?search_identifier=e3bad03433ff61f235a45f5a5754d005

The children can go to a non-catholic school, and attend Catechism classes on a Saturday.

We did this, it was fine. Contact the Priest who will tell you when/where.

YABU and snobby as well. There are fantastic high performing schools in Crawley. Bognor Regis as a seaside town has the same social problems that you perceive in Crawley due to high unemployment in that area. Horsham has work and more opportunities. I've lived in Crawley for 13 years, both children performing well above their age expectations, have a degree and qualifications myself, can't believe people can be so ridiculously snobby when it comes to school admissions.

Thanks for that, we would like a house having 2 young kids and surprised there's a 3 bed for £1000 that's the first one I've seen, will look on that website from now on, I generally just use rightmove.
I dislike Crawley as it's just like a concrete jungle, half the reason we left London.
It's not about the schools although nobody here sending their kids to the catholic primary is willing to even consider the catholic secondary in Crawley for some reason, have no idea why but I've heard that a big concern is the amount of non English children in the schools but I would have no idea as only visit Crawley to go to tilgate park or the cinema!