Private or State Pre-Prep and effect on later schools

[anxiousman]

I'm having an agonising decision over the best approach with nursery schools for my DD who is 3 years old. I'm not entirely happy with the state-funded schools and the local private pre-school one is good and I like it. We kinda said yes to the local state nursery, but I'm having doubts and want to go private (it's a couple of days per week).

Would there be any likely issue for future state schools rejecting applications for DD because we paid privately?

As far as I know, you apply for state schools regardless of where your child went to nursery. State schools can't reject an application. They have to take children, based on their location and the parents' preferred options.

Nursery does not give priority or otherwise for a Reception application.

No

It's completely irrelevant. It will have no bearing what so ever.

The only influence Nursery would have was if the state school had attendance at it's or another Nursery in its admissions criteria. However, this is very rare these days.

No. State schools allocate based on admission criteria only which is usually distance and attending the state nursery doesn’t give you preferential access to the attached school either.

Just do what you want.