KS2 Primary school appeal trying to get a place when there are 30 in the class

[SchoolPlease]

We recently moved to a new area and have only managed to get the youngest of our three dc's a place at a local primary school. As the oldest two dc's are both in KS2 we have appealed for a place for each of them on the basis that there is no limit of 30 children and they have a sibling in the school. Is anyone able to advise? or been through this process at all?

There is another school very close to our house that we could just about manage to get to without making any dc late, but they are full too. We've also appealed for places there as a back up although I'd be much happier if they could all be together.

I'd really really appreciate any advice.

I don't really know much about it but my dd class had 30 in ks1 and now in ks2 there are 2 more children as they moved to the village and appealed and have got in.

My DCs Junior school all of the classes have 32 children. The infants only took 30.

I appealed to a place for DS2 after DD was offered a place in our local school and was successful. My grounds for appealing were the same as yours - nearest school to home and sibing already attending.

Good luck.

Thank you everyone, it was supposed to be this morning and the EA made a mistake and sent the panel home before hearing our appeal!!! Not very happy tbh but they were very sorry etc.

There isn't a legal class size limit in KS2 so having a class of 30 makes no difference

Hi SchoolPlease
Good luck I hope it all works out for you.
Sounds like we are in a fairly similar situation - recently moved to a new area and our closest school had a place for DS1 (y4) but not DS2 (y2) so rather than split them up we enrolled both in our next geograpically closest school which fell in the next borough. NOT happy with the school, very different and not the environment we want them in, so have now arranged transfer of DS1 to first pref school (starts after Easter break) and have applied for a place for DS2 which we know will be refused as he still falls in y2 and they have 2 classes of 30 so are full. We aer intending to go to appeal to try and secure him a place from y3 in September when the class size restrictions are lifted, so we'll see.... anybody have any experience of anything similar? Comments welcome x

"class size restrictions are lifted" for KS2. Hmm, well, maybe in theory they are, but in practice many schools will not go above 30 per class.