Primary School Placing Requests South Edinburgh

[QueenBaker]

Hi everyone
Does anyone have any recent experience of successful (or not!) placing requests for P1 entry please? Specifically, Bonaly, Craiglockhart, Buckstone or South Mornngside. And if you were successful, when did you find out? I have heard of children being given their placing request as late as when they had already started at their catchment school.
TIA

I would have thought - though I don't know for each of these schools in detail - that the chance is extremely low. I am on the waiting list for an out of catchment place at a different S. Edinburgh school, but this is with a child already at the school and living very close (out of catchment is done by sibling link, then distance). I suppose there's nothing wrong with putting a placing request in as a back up, but, realistically, if you don't want your children to go to your catchment school I would move.

I should say - I'm high on the waiting list - I don't know if they put everyone on the waiting list or if they say no to some people...Also I found out last week. So you put in your request by December and find out from Mid March, but if you're on the waiting list then you find out any time as people drop out (or even don't turn up on the 1st day!) I think S. Edinburgh is just pretty busy at the moment, but it might be worth seeing if there are statistics somewhere from the council/ the schools about how many out of catchment places they offered.

Thanks for your insights auchinlay. I was thinking it would be a good idea to ask the specific schools for their stats in order to hedge our bets. Hope things work out for you