Primary school admissions distances

[Dru6]

Hello,

I'm yet another one who is moving from London to Brighton. I'm looking for the site that has the distance you have to be to each school in order to be allocated a place there. I know I've seen it before but now I can't find it! Can anyone help??!

And while I'm here does anyone have any views on St Bernadettes, Balfour or Downs?

Thanks

Anyone?

www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1171475

The link to the map is a pdf file at the top of the page

That link is to secondary schools. My children go/went to Downs, it's a lovely school. Good things said of balfour and st B's. The closer the better though, catchment areas are quite small

Thanks, but yes I'm after the distances for primary schools. I stumbled across a page which had all the primaries listed and for each one it gave the distance of the child who lives furthest away, who was accepted in to the intake of the previous year (if that makes sense!). Can't for the life of me find the page again!

www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/downloads/bhcc/education/Primary_School_Admissions_booklet_2012_13.pdf

The distances change each year, depending on how many children live in the area. The council is really helpful, give them a call and they'll let you have the distances for the schools you're interested in for the last few years. I think it's a bit different for St Bernadettes because it's a catholic school.

We're new to Brighton. My DD and DS are at Balfour. It's a lovely school. They're both very happy there.

That's exactly what I'm looking for - thanks cantspel. Now all we need is a house! We're so desperate to move to Brighton but there's nothing on the market...

There are probably only a couple of primary schools to avoid in Brighton and Hove really, we are very lucky that the vast majority are good.

I know children at Balfour (and my nephew went there, though he's 30 this year, so not that current!) and at Downs and all very happy. But yes catchments are small.

I second ringing & asking as it does change year to year, but generally the central school Primary catchment areas are pretty tiny, - I remember what was then seen as the top 1 in our area being less than 700m at the time we were looking - so the closer the better.

That said, some School can make exceptions if you have any SEN - I know DDs School does, as its known for being very good at helping such DCs & though VERY popular, with long waiting lists as its "outstanding" - some DCs do still travel quite a distance from the outskirts of town, it was other factors over distance that got them in.

The other thing to consider - unless you like moving of course - is Senior Schools - we don't have a choice any more here, but certain areas ( like ours) are ONLY in the Catchment area for the 2 best schools, yet barely a few streets over & you are suddenly also in the catchment for one of the worst