is there an easy way to find out what catchment area you are in?

[gemmiegoatlegs]

we are looking to move house (staying in the same town) in the next couple of months. I wanted to do a bit of research into which schools we may consider for the dcs. Does anyone know an easy way to find out if u are in a school's catchment, as obv, we would be gutted to live nearish to a great school and then not be in the catchment. Does this make sense?

think catchment areas change every year, depending on applications to the school.

if you phone the school itself, they will be able to tell you what the catchment area has been historically.

On our LEA website there is this function where you enter your postcode, and then the site tells you which school(s) you are in catchment for. This is Shefffield LEA BTW.

Meant to add - might be worth checking your LEA website for something similar.

A friend of mine was moving within the borough and wanted to know about catchments (not just for primary but also secondary in due course). She simply phoned the LEA up and asked and they were extremely helpful.

It's good, that online catchment area search.

Shame it doesn't also tell you the average latest house price in the catchment as well.

Guess you'd have to use another site for that UnquietDad. Maybe Up Your Street or something. Would be interesting to compare though.