School appeal

[Sonia2016]

Hi could someone please help me, I am so stressed out just found out that my son has been accepted to my fourth choice. I am so disappointed. I wouldn't mind if it was any of my 3 choices. I selected my fourth and fifth choice just to make sure there was something but in my head I actually thought I would be accepted to one of the top 3.
The problem here is my first choice is in my catchment area and the rest are not. To travel to the school my son got accepted says 40mins but with a small child you are looking at an hour if not more this is a long way to travel 2 times a day for a child and 4 for me.My son walks for 15mins after complains he is tired and wants me to carry him. I am concerned he will be so tired when he gets to school that it might affected his learning. The other thing is I don't feel like this school is as good as the other 3. I went to see them all and all my top 3 I loved. Is there any way I can appeal to the decision I know it's maybe silly but I am so upset it's really stressing me out.

Not sure if this applies to the area you live in or your situation but where we are if you do not attend church weekly you have no chance of getting into the catholic schools. If you are attending then obviously its bad luck. If you aren't you might need to start attending the local church attached to the school regularly in order to improve your chances. Good luck

Hi thank you for your response yes I do attend mass every week I go to my regular church that I have been going since my son has been born. Yes it is the same here you need to go church every week and school church but to the school church I don't go I go to my regular church

My untie lives down the road to me and attends the same church and she got the third choice school the one that I would prefer than the one I got so not sure how that worked out and she lives closer to the one I got accepted

You say your auntie (?) lives closer to the one you got, but do you live closer to the one she got? Assuming distance is the tie-breaker within an admissions category that would be what it goes on. Are there any in-parish criteria, anything like that where you may be in a different category? The admissions categories for our local catholic school are many and complicated!

You need to ask the admissions authority (or the school if they are their own admissions authority) what category your application was considered under and what distance they used for your house, and what the lowest category admitted/furthest distance within that category was.

My untie distance is showing 2.7m and mine is 2.6m in google maps but in school maps might be different I guess. Everything else is the same except distance

On the positive side, you got one of the schools you preferred and you got a catholic school which was your key concern.

Thank you so much for all your help and advice I really appreciate it

Don't forget to accept the school offered and then make sure you are on the waiting lists for all the schools you would prefer, even if not ones you originally chose.

Will they provide transport for schools over 2 miles away if you preferred some under 2 miles?

Not sure about if they provide transport will have to check. Thank you