Advice needed please...have been offered place at 'unacceptable' school across town

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Hello, I am very new to the school process as first child - ds is due to start school this September. We applied for a place at a lovely village school, with another village school as second choice and a large but very successful and popular school as number 3 choice. We have been offered place at a school on the other side of the town that has excluded 3 children in the last year and has a troubling Ofsted report. Both letters, we got 2 for some reason mentioned school no.3 and the fact that it was not possible to allocate DS a place there. What should we do? All help would be gratefully received as I can't think about this without crying.

bumpty bump...forms have got to be in by Friday!!

Any reasons used at an appeal gratefully received. Thank you.

.......bump!!

have you tried searching MN on "appeals" - there was a thread pretty recently which listed criteria from soemone who had been throguh it.

I think it is UnquietDad who has some info here for example

Thanks LIZS...I think I am just putting it off until the last minute....no sleep until they are completed