AIBU to ask for your in-year transfer waiting list success stories?

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Hello,

I know this is super-subjective but I'd really love some reassurance and some positive outcome anecdotes to give me hope on this cold grey day.

We relocated to the country a few weeks ago. Three schools in the village with one-form intakes.

DC1 (year 3) has a place at one and loves it so far, it's a wonderful school - and we are v happy and relieved.

DC2 (Reception, VERY busy year by the look of it) has been placed in a school a few miles away. DC2 does seem happy but not as settled as DC1 and the logistics of 2 different schools are becoming harder with drop-off times, work, lack of public transport etc.

DC2 is top of the waiting list for all three local schools. Sibling preference at DC1's school; we're about 100m away from the second school; and slightly further from the 3rd.

Has anyone been in a similar position and if so, I'd love to hear how it worked out in the end. Is there often movement with Reception/Year One? We're very fortunate that we have potential hope but today was a really hard day with DC2, the drop off and what they have to put with getting to school on top of readjusting to a new area and life.

Note: DC2 doesn't qualify for free school transport as not SSA yet and we don't have grounds to appeal.

It really depends on so many factors (how populous your catchment is, what other schools there are, whether they are already over roll for some reason, schools admissions policies).

If you only live 100m away there can't be many people forget up the waiting list.

But you're waiting for someone to move house and who can say when that'll happen? And the people moving in need to not have children needing a place in that school or they'll just take the place that the pros occupants freed up.

It doesn't really matter how easy or not it was for other people, your situation is unique.

Good luck.

We moved house and transferred two of our children. The youngest had a place ready for the day we actually moved in. The oldest was waiting for a month after when they got their place. That was year 1 and year 5.

There had been another 5 students transfer into year 1 not long before us. Reception always seemed to have new children coming and going.