Unadequate school, outside catchment area

[Turefu]

Hello!
We live in rural Yorkshire area. My son is in year 5 and the only secondary school is unadequate. I really don't want him to go there. There's grammar school 20 miles away, but it's outside catchment area. There's also catholic school in nearby (12 miles) city, very good one and very oversubscribed. I would consider moving, just can't do it right now for various reasons. Any advice? How to get into school outside catchement area?

@Turefu

Hi , thank you for replies. There’s grammar 20 miles away, but they accept based on location rather then performance . My son is clever enough to pass exam, will he get very top notch score? I don’t know. Local school’s rating was done in 2016. Previous one “required improvement “. I’ve got rental home nearly an hour away from my home. There’s another grammar four miles away. I guess I could move there. But probably I would need to live there at the time of 11plus exam and it’d be very difficult .

Ny definition that is not a grammar school then . Can you clarify? if they accept on catchment why have an exam?

@KaptainKaveman Grammars often have (large) catchment areas. Otherwise they could offer places to children all over the country. Not the same as selecting solely on distance.

@blyn72

INadquate, not 'unadequate'.

Oh the irony

@KaptainKaveman Some grammars accept children purely on the score they get in the exam (starting with the highest and working down until all places are filled, regardless of where they live) and some have a 'pass mark' and will offer places based on distance regardless of the score, as long as it is over the pass mark. Some have a policy between this where they have a set catchment area in which you need to get a certain score, and remaining places usually go to those who scored highest out of catchment. The admissions policy will vary by location and by individual school.