We are moving house and will be applying for a year 3 place in September. The LA’s vacancy checker shows all nearest 6 schools to our new house don’t have any space for the old Year 2 albeit data were from March pre lockdown. School 7th from the house has spaces but we don’t like the school. We like school 8th from the house more than some other nearer schools.
So we intend to put in schools 1st, 2nd, and 8th from the house. I know for year 3 ICS no longer applies so fingers crossed.
My question is: LA can see I put in school 8th from the house, can they assume that we are OK with that distance and give us school 7th which is well under subscribed across all year groups? I can imagine LA wants to fill undersubscribed schools and reduce pressure at oversubscribed schools.
I know we should always put schools in true preferences, which are those shown above, but just don’t know if we would be given what we don’t really want.
Many thanks
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therewillbelight · 12/08/2020 21:28
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