Hi, we just missed out on a reception place at our catchment area community school (which is down our street), on distance criteria. I imagine we must be pretty high on the waiting list because we have been notified of the furthest distance that an offer was made. We have been offered our third choice school, which I have accepted but would prefer the one down our street.
On the LEA website it says
"There will be further rounds of offers to those who submitted applications after the original closing date of 15 January 2014 for round number 1. The closing dates for these are shown in the table below:
Round number 2. closing date 16th May. offer date 20th May"
Does this mean that these are just offers for late applicants? Or it is likely that waiting list offers could be made if people have declined offers? The website says nothing about how waiting list offers are made (via the website? or does someone call you?) only that you are automatically placed onto waiting lists of higher preference schools that you didn't get an offer from.
Bit stressed about all this as our landlord has just told us he wants to sell the property we live in so very worried about what will happen in terms of waiting lists etc! (I suppose if we are forced to move further from the preferred school we will end up further down waiting list).