Question about the waiting list process

[sleepyhorse]

Hi just wondered how it works with the waiting list for preferred school. Who gets priority - is it first come first served or does it go on closest to distance to school?

our council say in the admissions section of the website that they apply to the same criteria as the initial admissions. i've been re-reading as we didnt get any of preferred schools

Thank you

Yes, it follows whatever the published admission criteria are. So you can go down the list over time as well as up.

It's done by exactly the same criteria as the original applications. However, after the 31st August the lists are managed by the school themselves not the LEA.

We got a place for DD at our first choice via the waiting list, however it wasn't until 3 weeks into term. Two children didn't turn up and two moved abroad (I'm in London and the school has very high mobility) so they had 4/60 places available. Even though we were low down the list, all but one of the parents above us turned down the place so we got in.

After term starts, a lot of parents don't take waiting list places as they have bought the uniform and don't want to move their child.

I rang the poor LEA people once a week for months and went up and down the list like a yo-yo!