Can I have help with appeals process please?

[Comeoverfordrinks]

Hi all,

We live in a small village. Catchment secondary school doesn’t perform well for various reasons.

We made a placing request for a local school that is out-with catchment and also out-with our LA. We live on the boundary of this other local authority.

The school we made the placing request for is very good - in the top 10 in Scotland.

Found out yesterday that our son didn’t get in. All of his friends are going to a local independent. Son doesn’t want to go to catchment school, we don’t particularly want him to go there. Can’t really afford independent where his friends are going, nor would we send him there if we could properly afford it.

We are willing to move into the catchment of the good school but there are barely any houses for sale currently and they are snapped up, so easier said than done at the moment.

Can someone help me with the best info to use when appealing the decision?

Son is upset and I feel like we’ve let him down by not moving sooner tbh.

Bumping for traffic!!

I'm by no means an expert but there are loads of threads. You need good grounds to prove why the school you want will be a much better fit for your DS. Does it have an amazing music facility and he wants to be a conductor? Is he a linguist and the other school only offers one foreign language? That sort of thing.

We don't think it's good enough for him doesn't cut it

ETA that's England. Assume similar conditions apply in Scotland!

No help but I'm going to put this bit in bold and capitals before loads of people come along with English-centric advice.
The OP is in SCOTLAND

You might also try Scotsnet.

Thanks!