Another 'grounds for appeal' thread, what do you think?

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We live in an area with several small villages and most of the villages have schools. When DD started school (now in yr2, will be yr3 in sept) we did our research and chose a school in a neighbouring village. This decision was based on the schools Ofsted report and the fact that the local school children are a nightmare. We live in a fairly rough area and the kids can be heard f'in and jeff'in out in the street (our house has been on the market since last May and has fallen through twice )
Anyway, DD has settled in really well and has a lovely friendship group, she is very shy and has come out of her shell recently which is lovely to see.
DS is due to start in Sept, but we found out today that he didn't get a place at DD's school, he did get a place at the local school.
I am cross that DD will have to change schools as we can't be in two places at once... is this grounds for appeal? It sounds so hazy on the forms, there is no clear definitive line, as such.
Anyone had experience of this?
tia

You can try, but unfortunately this is more of a childcare/transport question than one of education. Lots of schools only have infants provision anyway, so any parent with more than one child has to face this juggle once the eldest reaches Yr 3. But no harm in trying.

it carries little weight...i have 5dc in 5 different schools!!

Catchment counts more than sibling, they did knowledge everything... not looking good is it? [busad]
School has space for 30 there were 7 folks in our category (with sibling, out of the village) 3 got places, 4 didn't... done on distance.
I work away during the week so only DH (who also works full-time) to get them to and from, childminders for DD 2 will only work with DD1's school she doesn't drive and is local, so will have to move all three children to a crap school. This is really shit innit.

what if theres no places for the ones you have to move

I know! and obvs can't check until Tuesday now and I will be on a train en route to London, arrgghh!

You can give it a go and you might strike it lucky but I'm afraid this isn't a strong case. With an admission number of 30 it will be an infant class size appeal which means you need to show that a mistake has been made. If they put your son in the correct admission category and got the distance correct it would seem that there hasn't been a mistake, so any appeal should fail.

Even if it wasn't an infant class size case I'm afraid childcare and transport issues don't generally make for a successful appeal case.