Hi, I am also planning to move to Altrincham area soon.
We have conducted research on some schools and have targetted Wellington School somehow, and are looking for an accommodation as close to it a possible. However, I have been shocked to realise that living close alone wouldn't get a student a place of grade 7 for school year 20/21, and I am like thunderstruck all of a sudden.
As for this year, living close alone could not get a student a place at its grade 7, not even close to it, as it could only allocate a place until category 3 (children of staff, and not even ALL in category 3!).
Living super close could only get one into the top of the list in category 4, while we can't do anything to get higher than that basically.
Here are my questions:
(1) As I can only get information for this particular school year, might I know if it has been like that every single year, or it was only occasional?
(2) Do you know anyone who could so luckily get admitted from category 4 (just by living close to the school, no siblings in school, no parent working in there, etc.) in recent years?
(3) If that is the case for every single year, which other school would you recommend trying instead? (We are actually looking for an accommodation, and would be pretty flexible if we opt for another school, as we will look for a place close enough to the target school to rent instead.)
Hope someone can answer me, as we are so desperately in need for advices!
Thanks a lot!