Where can you find a school's furthest distance from the school in-round admission figure?

[LittenTree]

ie from how far away did they admit a Y7 in-round last year?

Am looking at this school. It is for a friend who has no internet access and doesn't want to bother the school as they were unlikely to have the information to hand, anyway (perhaps a fair point!). I though it had to be published somewhere, anyway.

Tia

Hi there,

If you go on the local authority website and look under school admissions, you should be able to find out. Our local authority has a booklet with the distance details from last years admissions that you can download, called 'A guide to applying to secondary school'.
Alternatively, (if you wait a few days as its allocation day today and they will be very busy!) you could phone the LA and they will tell you the distance for this year.

The 2010 figure is here (look at the secondary school directory). They don't seem to have put 2011 data up as yet. But I've heard that 8 DCs from my kids' school in a neighbouring town (11miles away from that school) got in in this year's admission round if that helps.

Fab. That's exactly what I was looking for! Many thanks.

You are lucky - Hampshire has some of the best info on the web!
NB if your friend is planning to send their child to Westgate they would be well advised to get the internet as online homework, marking, correspondence etc is a big Hampshire thing - even for the academies

TKP2- I'd agree- all except the hallowed halls of Thornden They're 'not big' on IT, tbh. Don't know if they consider it 'faddish' or something....

I am minded to recall a aprents evening my M&D attended, circa 1975 at my girls GS where a father aske dthe headmistress (who had been created straight from the mould Mrs Thatcher had vacated..) " Why do the girls not learn how to touch-type?" to which she said (rising to her imperial 5'6")... " My gels will have their own secretaries. They don't need to be taught 'trade' ".

So there

To be fair my friend is temporarily indisposed internet-wise.

Oh Shit! Litten you had my secondary head before I did. She came to my school in 1979 when I was lower 5th with EXACTLY that line !
And Thornden are too busy on stage to do wires and stuff!
Which years are your kids in ? PM me....

Y8 and Y6 (KW) at present, TKP2.

I went to SWGS Salisbury, myself, a thousand years ago!

LOL
Not the same head, but by the look of it mine might have been a protege of yours ! Scary. I was at school in London.

Your kids have seen my DH ....