Anyone ever successfully challenged (and changed) school catchment boundaries?

[jasper]

Without going into the boring details our house is the subject of a historical anomaly regards school catchment areas. (the map was drawn up at a time when certain roads existed that are no longer there).
Has anyone ever successfully challenged the school catchment area boundaries around their home?

I used to work in admissions and also had some responsibility for planning school places (and thereforemany of our discussions referred back to catchment areas). We very rarely altered catchment areas, unless it led to a better distribution of places in an area where some schools were over-subscribed within their own catchment areas as a result of population changes. As a result, although we sometimes received requests to alter catchment areas, it would never be done unless we could see that it would ease problems with the distribution of places.

If (as your posting seems to imply, you feel that you have ended up in the 'wrong' catchment area, as a result of an historical accident, you could pursue this through the following routes:

Contact your local councillor and/or
Writing to your Council's Schools Admissions Forum

I think that it would probably be more effective if you got together with any other parents who share the same circumstances. However (and sadly for you) Councils tend to have regard for the way in which a catchment area currently operates, rather than events which happened in the past.

Hope this is helpful