Long story short , COVID19 has meant we are only moving to a new area on 31st Aug and can’t apply for school until I get proof of new home. We are moving to St Albans road, North Watford and the nearest school is parkgate junior (0.3) miles away. As it’s outstanding is it even worth me applying given distance is rule 5 ?? Could people have also moved away from the area and so there are spaces or have I really left it too late ?? Then my second two options are beechfield and grove but these are academies and I never read anything good on academy’s. I’m not even going to bother with Nascot. Any insight or advice most welcome. I did subscribe to locrating which gives me 18/19 data which is a guide I guess. In the event we got a poorly performing school, how often do parents win appeals ? I’m only 0.4 miles from Knutsford which looks to be under performing. Thanks in advance !