Norwich primary schools

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Hi there everyone

We've found a house in Norwich we'd like to put an offer in but the only state primary school it's in a catchment area for is Lakenham.
From your experience does that mean that's the only school we'd get a place at? What about schools outside our catchment?
The place we're looking at buying seems to sit barely 0.1 miles.outside of catchment for many other schools, but crucially is not in catchment.
I've been traveling the internet to try and find admissions stats for Norfolk to see what our chances for but I can't find them anywhere.

Where we currently live doesn't really do things in such defined catchment areas (although obviously proximity to a school is key) so I'm a bit clueless as to what our chances are in having more of a choice in school for our dc.

I'd be grateful for your thoughts :)

I’d say as long as the school isn’t massively oversubscribed you have a good chance of getting into a school further away. I’m in NR3 and plenty of my daughter’s friends live miles away (and her school is very small).

Anything in the golden triangle is very difficult to get into if you’re not in catchment, but other schools might be ok. What areas were you looking at?

Lakenham can be a bit iffy in parts. Do you know the area well?

Also depends what year your child is in if they’re already at school age. There’s some very low birth rate years in infants at the moment, especially the cohort going into year 2.

I agree with Elpheba, it depends on the year group. DD’s usually massively oversubscribed school has multiple places in particular year groups for the first time in years, especially year 2, yet the year above is oversubscribed.

Look into Charles Darwin Primary on Rose Lane and the Free School on Surrey Street - both are city centre and I think neither have catchment areas but they do have admission criteria. Charles Darwin is rated Ofsted outstanding and many kids travel in from various places including Lakenham.

You could try Trowse. A larger school has recently opened and they have been taking children from other catchments.

Hi everyone
Thank you for your replies and sorry for my delayed reply - had dreaded norovirus this week!
This is all really useful and will help us move forward with our house / relocation search - we decided not to offer for the Lakenham catchment area house so will keep looking. Wish us luck!
thanks again x