how many of us, just send our kids to the local school

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am feeling this is getting more rare now!

both mine do. DS is in yr2 and DD is in the nursery (have just applied for her school place there for sept) Am very happy with it so far.

However the secondary school nearest to us is a different ball game and I will be looking at other options further afield.

I was going to mention being in Scotland in my earlier post but wasn't sure if it was still the case that just about everyone sends their children to the local school. Looks like it is. It's maybe different in the cities (where there might be a few "rougher" schools so people choose schools out with their catchment) but there's very few cities up here!

My LO's school will be decided on where their childminder picks up from. I am CERTAIN about who I want to childmind them when I return to work at 6months. I have no strong desire over which of the 5 state primaries they attend. Therefore, my priority is whichever school the childminder picks up from. If they do not get a place there, I will have to find an alternative childminder, and I genuinely think that for me, she is more important.

we have or will - but have moved here specifically for the school

I did in my last town - sent them to the one nearest the house with no research before hand about what the school was like. However, the school was fine, and it was lovely that everyone lived locally. However, it wasn't the best school in the town by a long way, and I wish I had been more savvy and researched schools more thoroughly.

local school but it also happens to be a good school

My oldest three went to the village school. My ds now sixteen went to a smaller school 2 miles away better suited to his SEN for primary. For secondary he went to an enhanced resource 26 miles away and for post 16 he is attending an independent special school 23 miles away.
My youngest goes to a different primary to all her siblings again 2 miles away because it's very inclusive and she has ASD too and a statement of SEN.
Horses for courses IMO

Mosty people around here send their children to the local primary or the Catholic school which is next door. Neither outstanding iirc, but quite pleasant.

Secondary gets more complex, as the catchment areas are a bit odd; you can end up living in the same street as one of the secondaries and be out of catchment whereas somebody from the other end of the suburb is in catchment. One school is oversubscribed, partly due to the reputation of the other.

We sent dcs to local schools for infants and juniors, but the catchment secondary has no disabled access, so not an option. Due to strange catchment boundaries, the catchment school is also further from our house than the "non-local" school dcs attend.

DC go to the local school a few minutes walk away. However when we moved I based exactly where we lived on schools as we rent and so I was able to have more freedom in deciding where to live.

We did, just as most people we know did too.

where w elive now took 6 months toi get dd into out local school ( only 12 kids live in teh village everyone else drives in past several schools )

we move again soon and i had to appeal to get dd into local school even though is 40 m from my door

We moved to England specifically so that DD can go to a feeder for an over subscribed school for her secondary.
Not sure we should have bothered though TBH, apparently 2001 was a year of low births so not much over subscription anyway.

I live in Scotland. Ds doesn't go to the nearest school because its over subscribed. His school is 1 mile away though.

No I don't, mine go to a Catholic School a few miles away.

My DCs went to the local primary as it simply made sense. It's only a 10min walk away, it's a nice place and the school friends they made are all local too.

My DS didn't go to the local secondary as the closest is a Catholic school and he wouldn't have got in even if I thought religious schools were a good idea. The next closest secondary is a girl's school so he ended up at a boy's school on the other side of town. It's still walking distance though. DD will be going on to the girl's secondary.

I'd say about 80% or more of the primary school children in our village go to the local school.

Of all the children in my DSs primary class, none went private. About 1/3 went to the catchment secondary, another 1/3 to a different comp. and the other 1/3 to different schools (all comps).

Our local primary is very good and our local comps are very good. We are lucky.

DS goes to the state primary school in the village which happens to be very good and also the school I went to as a child . He'll then go to local comp, which is very good too.

When I went to the local primary all my friends lived in the villages surrounding the school, now most of the children come from the local towns. There used to be a much more "community" feel about it and now it is much less so.

My DC certainly went to their nearest primary school. But it happened to be private.

We do...seems normal in Scotland. I never even thought to apply to any other school!....the English system sounds horrendous, that mixed with middle school and sixth form college...all bonkers.

Local primary school 4/5-12 yrs, high school 12-18 years. Job done. They can leave at 16 and go to college if they chose.

I do. But but planned house move was guided by the location of three good schools. DS1 was about to turn 3 when we moved so not a just-before-application move, we had outgrown our house. Still here now he is 12 :)

No

Yep. In fact, most people where I live (rural) just send their kids to their local / nearest school and are pretty happy with it.

Mine does. She was HE but when she asked to go to school there was never any question over which one she'd go to.

Its a CofE school and tbh if there was an non-faith alternative in walking distance she'd go there instead but where we live it'd be 100 miles in the car every week to get her to/from the nearest non-faith school.

Mine go to the local primary. DS1 is due to go up to year 7 next September and I will do everything in my power to ensure that he doesn't go to the local secondary.

Yes. I had to work like stink to get it to work though, after finding out that the lovely house that we bought when we got married with 3 primaries near it was actually not going to result in a place in walking distance unless we did something.

Most people around here want to send their children to the nearest school (the schools around here are all pretty good) but due to enormous pressure on places all sorts of shenangans go on. It's a bit of a nightmare TBH.