Primary school waiting list

[Becky143]

Hi, I'm a newbie on here, I wonder if anyone could give me some advice. My son has just been refused a place at our preferred choice of Primary school due to class size - no point appealing there. However, the school offered to us was unacceptable due to it being a religously denominated school with a very overbearing doctrine. We have asked for his name to be taken off that school list. The LEA have therefore advised us to put his name on the waiting lists for schools we would be happy for him to attend. My query is this - do we have to wait until all appeals in our area are dealt, with before we on the waiting lists are dealt with. Are places only allocated to those on the waiting lists, once places allocated by results of appeals? I'm worried this could be a long process! Any advice would be great, thanks!

Hi - this is only my experience and some 10 years ago - but when my ds didn't get a place at local primary school we appealed.
We lost appeal because of class size BUT school secretary said " oh we only keep those who have appealed on the waiting list ".
We got a place from the waiting list in second week of term.

Waiting lists and appeals are independent these days (despite what happened to Violetqueen 10 years ago). If a place becomes available the LA has to offer it to the next child on the waiting list. They are not supposed to keep you waiting just because there are outstanding appeals.

Whilst your chances of success at an infant class size appeal are low, they are not nil. It depends on the details. I won an "infant class size appeal" because the LA were trying to use class size regulations where they did not apply. However, if the regulations do apply and they haven't made a mistake, I would agree that there isn't a lot of point appealing.

That's really helpfull, thanks for you're replies. I've since spoken to the admissions dept and they said places are allocated in around 3 weeks so not too long at all. Thanks again!