declining school offered

[supermum21]

my son got a school that we did not put on our preference list we would like to dicline but WE are not sure what happens
what happens if I delince primary school place?

You would be better accepting and going on waiting lists for your preferred ones. Were you unrealistic perhaps in your list or do you think there may be grounds for appeal, otherwise it is just a waiting game ? Declining won't give any additional weight to your case and you may be without a place at all.

Agree with Lizs, we accepted our allocated place and are on the waiting lists for the three we didn't get. I doubt we'll get a place in any of them as last year one of the schools we put down had 100 people on the waiting list.

The LA will have to offer you a place at a school at the point where your child has to go to school by law. That place can in effect be anywhere and will probably be worse than the one that you are considering rejecting. You will then be in a position that you have to get your child to that school.

Whilst you might not want the offered school place it will almost for sure be better than the alternative that will eventually be offered by the LA, short of you home educating. I would accept the place as the back stop position. Establish when your son has to start school during the next year and then work via wating lists and appeals to get a place at a school that is acceptable to you.

admission... a child does not have to go to school by law - yes, full time education is compulsory the term after the child turns 5 so, supermum21 if you really don't want that school and aren't successful waiting on lists then you could 'home educate' for the first term, or longer depending on when your son's birthday is and wait for a place at a different school. The choice is yours entirely but that is an option...