what is the typical distance you need to live from a london primary school to....

[iwanttowinamillionor2]

get in? in hackney/ islington school, i know each school is different but what is typical in london? anyone know? thanks

It varies a lot.

The school I want to get DD into told me that everyone within 800 metres got in.

But then another school said you had to live within 200 metres to get in.

If you look in the primary schools admissions brochures for both boroughs (pdf available online) there is a table showing you what the cut-off distance was for reception admissions the previous year. It won't be identical from year to year (varies according to sibling numbers, application numbers and SN applicants (none of which you can predict) but should give you a rough idea.

It's impossible to generalise, btw -- some one-form entry schools will have a cut-off of a couple of hundred metres, other schools you can live the far side of London and still get in.

It varies year to year. We live outside London and didn't get into our closest school even though we were only 400 metres away. The year before the furthest applicant was 600 metres.

Thanks I'll do a search on the brochures now!

Islington one here (link on rh side).

Hackney one here (link in right-hand column).

excellent information thanks so much *frogs"

By the way you cant conclude much about the quality of a school by whether it is oversubscribed, or how near to it you have to live. For example a school beside (or in) an area of dense housing with a lot of school age children may have a smallish radius of admission. I also knew of a well regarded school a few years ago which was in a part of London with very few school age children near it and a big park, so it had a big radius.