is there a site ont'internet which allows one to ascertain how fart one lives from a given school?

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as it says? doing it now, so any ideas would help
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how fart

how fart ???

how far even.
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upmystreet gives all the distances as to how fart they are

ROFL!

yeah yeah, give it up already. glad i'm making you chuckle... i am dyslexic, ya know! ()

The LEA website will also have catchement area details (ie which road is in the catchment for which school), and www.the-aa.com gives how far the actual journey would be as opposed to how far it is as the crow flies.
If you're in London the TfL Journey Planner gives walking/cycling/bussing times etc.

er. hope i didnt sound deeply humorous. btw. was chuckling too.

Various schols near us have various criteria relating to proximity like 'the shortest walking route on pavements with street lighting'.

Our route to school is for the purposes of measurement allowed to include 'railway bridges' but not 'alleyways'!

A map?

Someone beat me to it but upmystreet.com is your place. My LEA don't publish catchment areas as they vary from year to year.

I am always hearing of people moving nearer and nearer to our local best school just to get it.

Apparently one is on the waiting list and has now dropped down a place because someone else on the list has moved nearer. And bed and breakfasting/grandparent addresses are rife too.

How did it get to this stage???

"How did it get to this stage??? "

The inroduction of parental choice I think. Before then most schools were just average, with the odd really good and the odd really bad school. Now you have really good schools and really bad schools, and a few in the middle - and the fight that comes with it all.

I suppose it has good and bad points, but I would be so relieved if there was only one choice of school and everyone had to go there.

I live within reach of countless (at least 30) schools, and within definite catchment of about 5. But I could easily end up with no place, depending on the demand in each one, and what I put as order of preference.

Upmy street.com don't list all the local schools in my area, and in fact they miss the best one. You can usually check on the LEA website.

upmystreet.com is crap. It doesn't given accurate picture of areas at all.

Yes, parental choice and league tables are jointly to blame I think. Before that, there wasn't such a madly competitive edge to the whole thing.

Type your post code in here

That is a great site, but it did miss of one of our local ones.

Tee hee, keep seeing word fart in thread title and makes me grin every time . Sorry, I am childish and immature.

ofsted website givs distance of any school from yr postcode on the search facility

just in case anyone planning the sneaky rent a flat nearby option a family in our town has just been taken to court for this and son removed! Poor lad (cheeky parents)

Your local LEA usually show the distance which the furthest person got in from, in the first round admissions, for the previous year or two. If you go to the LEA website it will usually have a rundown of each school and will show admission numbers per year etc and it is usally there. I hope this makes sense