Is this journey too long for an 11 year old to take each day?

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I'm at the stage where I'm considering secondary schools for DD. We have 2 choices, let's call them school A and school B. A is a 45 minute walk and is a poor performing academy with poor GCSE results and a bad reputation. It is under subscribed and considered "rough", attracting a lot of pupils from poorer areas. On the plus side, it has great facilities and I would probably be able to drive and collect DD most days as it's close to my workplace.

School B is 11 miles away. It gets excellent results, is single sex, and has an outstanding OFSTED. DD would need to go on the bus each day. This would mean leaving home at 7.20am (bus stop is 10 min stroll from our house) and not getting home until 4.30pm.

DD is bookish, quite academic and certainly a "trier", quite unworldly and young for her age, and quite a tomboy. She likes her sleep and struggles with making friends due to a lack of confidence.

My questions are ; is the journey to school B too much? She will have homework and school clubs to factor in as well. But school B is a better fit for DD in lots of ways.

In my situation, which school would you be inclined to choose?

My dd does a journey just like your school b, times are the same too. She has no problems so I'd say school b

DS1 and DS2 leave the house at 7:45 to catch the bus to school. They get home at around 4:15. Lots of their friends do a longer journey as we live in a very rural area, I know one of DS1's friends doesn't get home until almost 5:00. The school they attend is the nearest.

I would say school B sounds fine.

If school B is 11 miles away and outstanding (or good, sorry cant recall the Ofsted) how do you know you'll get in. Out local outstandings has a catchment of 0.5miles.

I did an hours journey to and from school every day and it was totally fine. Btw, I was 6!! In the nicest possibly way, I think you are worrying over nothing. She will be fine - def school B!!

Once she is off the bus whats the journey by foot to school like? How often are the buses? You need to do the school run at some point if poss there and back on a normal school day to see if the buses are crowded and so on but option A doesnt sound very appealing.