HARPENDEN SECONDARY SCHOOL ALLOCATIONS

[newfuture2011]

My son has been allocated a school in St Albans, a non ranked school - not even on our list. We live in Harpenden.
Quite a few children in Harpenden are in this position. I am curious as to how many other children in Harpenden have not been allocated a Harpenden Secondary School for Sept 2015. Herts County Council say they cannot provide specific statistics on number of children in Harpenden allocated a secondary school outside of Harpenden. So now it is a waiting game and the whole appeals process.
I have heard of at least 12 families who have received a school outside of Harpenden which was not a ranked school on their list of applications.
It would be useful to hear from anyone in a similar situation. We ranked our schools in the following order. 1) St Georges 2) Sir John Lawes 3) Roundwood 4) Sandringham.

Interesting. Are you on the St Albans side of Harpenden?

We are 4.3 miles away from the St Albans school. Approx 50 kids have been allocated a school outside of Harpenden. I am waiting on the CI list to see what happens this week. We live near Aldwickbury Golf Course.

New future, you can send them a freedom of information request asking for a breakdown of 2015 offers by postcode district for that school. I've just received one for my area, it's very comprehensive and tells you exactly where this years intake are coming from. They literally sent me a list of 240 postcodes.