Our nearest state primary is voluntary aided but not religious. It has a great reputation and gets amazing SATS scores. It has a formidable Head who has been there for years and years.
The published criteria is (1) SEN; (2) Siblings and (3) Proximity.
The weird thing is that the school is in a very mixed area of London but the kids are 95% white and middle class. The Head told us they have no children with English as a second language (v odd compared to other local schools) and they have 1 statemented child in the whole school (again v different from others). This year our (mixed race) neighbour did not get her daughter in and was told she is 20th on the waiting list, nobody on this street has ever failed to get in before.
When you apply to the school you have to write a page of why you want your child to go there. No other local school asks for this. We asked the Head what she does with this page and she simply said it is for her own research .
Is it possible for a school to bend the system? Would the LEA no stop this happening?
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I don't think our local state primary is following the published admissions criteria. Is that possible?
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artichokes · 22/06/2009 13:19
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