Please excuse this being my first post. I have been lurking and I’ve searched for this and found lots of stories about people who are on waiting lists but not always the outcome.
Could I ask for stories about waiting lists to keep me going until I know more about ours?
Basic story - we missed out by less than 10m on our first choice school (we live 0.006 miles further away than the last child admitted) and got our 5th choice. It isn’t awful but we would much prefer number one.
We are in a local authority who have an opt in waiting list which will close on the 15th March so we can find out our place on the waiting list on 16th. People have to accept their places by 29th March and then they’ll start to allocate them if there are any from April to August.
I’ve drawn a circle on google maps at our distance away, a big part of it is in the catchment for (and closer to) an outstanding school in the neighbouring authority and another big part is non residential so we don’t seem to be in a lot of competition on distance but I am aware people may have moved into the area or decide to make a lay application with a higher criteria and so could so be higher up the list than us.
Just hoping some people can share their “I was position X and we got to position Y” or “we were 50m away and we were position Z” just to keep me going while I wait to hear more.