Panic stations! Is it possible to be declined a place for your child despite being in catchment and having an older sibling at the school?

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It looks like our village school is going to be oversubscribed for September 2008. Dd already attends (currently in Yr 1 will be in Yr 2 in Sept 2008) and I want ds to start Reception there in Sept '08

Is it possible that due to sheer weight of numbers ds may not get in despite us living in catchment (only just!) and having an older sister there?

The prospect of him not getting in is too horrible to contemplate. I couldn't have them attending separate schools (too logistically awkward) so would need to withdraw dd so they could both go to the same one (which would absolutely shatter her - she loves it there and has made lots of friends)

Orinoco...... 8 kids to 10 kids- thats 20% surely? (although I am notoriously abd at numbers)

Checked with school sec on Monday. They usually take 13 but have scope to increase by a couple (Yr R and Yr 1 are in a combined class)...

20 currently on the list for 13 places. 9 of these siblings.

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An increase from 8 to 10 is a 25% increase I think....

Shall we go back to school ? - assuming we would get in...

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We, like so many others round here, were denied a place. DS was already there, but we were further along the catchment line, and so didn't get in. Can and does happen.

Now have 2 children at different schools - nightmare to begin with, but it works out OK now.

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