What happens if I refuse to take my ds to the school we end up with?

[mum2oliver]

My ds nearest school is a really bad school.We live almost the same distance away from about 4 other schools.I have put down 3 of those schools and they are all oversubsribed.Could I end up being given none of my choices and end up with rubbish one?
And-What would happen if an appeal failed and then I flatly refused to take him to the rubbish school?

Mum2oliver - what's the Ofsted like? don't go on what you hear - go on what you see and what you read. It's a very strange characteristic of a lot of parents that they like to slag off the school other people's children go to. Strange but true.

seeker,the ofsted is ok but as i said it achieves low and all the other things i said.

how could anyone possibly know 'most kids get free school dinners' - that and the othe stuff you've said about the school just sounds like complete gossip to me. no doubt its because its on a council estate.

If it is like Scotland, the FME (Free Meal Entitlement" is used as a proxy for deprivation and forms part of the officialstats for the school. So it is not just gossip.

The number of children taking free school meals is part of the official statistics of a school - it's considered a pretty accurate indicator of the level of material deprivation among a school's intake.

However, I'm still not clear what's wrong with the school in question. The Ofsted's OK, but I don't know what the results are like or what the Value Added figures are - difficult to comment without all this sort of info.

mysonsmummy,Its stated on the ofsted report!!!

Its Highfield Primary School,Highfield Road,Kettering,Northamptonshire.

mum2oliver here are the performance tables for that school

www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/school_07.pl?No=9282060&Mode=Z&Type=SC&Ph ase=p&Year=07&Base=p&Num=928

I dont blame you for wanting to get your son in a better school, I did it myself

Tinkerbeltinsle.I just tried to put that in and said it couldnt open it??
Please help.
Thank you for understanding and showing support.

Sorry its ok Iv found it.Thanks.x

Iv found it but I dont get it

50% SEN but still has a CVA of 100.8. Might not be as bad as you think- sounds like the children make good progress.

Can I ask why you think it's a really bad school? Ofsted don't think it is - and it looks as if children achieve well, even if a lot of them start at a pretty low baseline. It sounds as if the school is aware of the areas where it need to improve - and a recent Ofsted underlining this tends to concentrate the mind! Do you know someting that the inspectors missed? (Highly possible, they are only in for a day or two with the school in it's party frock!)

Im being a snob.I know I am.I just want him to go the better ones. Take a look at Millbrook Infant school,Ketering.