Balancing school applications across different children

[TuttleTree]

How does anyone balance house move for school entry for your oldest child if you have 1 or 2 other children to also think about!?

If DC1 gets a place at preferred school what is DC2/3 don't or what if the school is a single-sex school? Surely you can't keep moving house for each child? Am I missing something? What's the best approach?

I assume you’re talking about private schools?

Are you re-locating to specifically fall into the catchment area of a school you want dc1 in? Then, to my mind, you are committing to living in that area and either send future dc to the same school or to an alternative school close to that house.

I've never heard of anyone relocating in-between each child's intake!

Why?

We chose a good school catchment that suited both.

DD2 might do better in a Grammar school instead of a comprehensive, but the 11+ process definitely wouldn't suit her so its for the best really!

Because otherwise you move into an area and send your kids to the local catchment schools 🤔

No, I'm talking about grammars

Presumably in a grammar school area there are boys' and girls' grammar schools? There were where I went to school anyway. Not that I recommend moving there!

Or are you concerned that child A will get into the grammar but not child B? I mean in that case, the best thing would surely be to move to a non-grammar area with good comps. There are plenty of those.

I think a lot of the people who are in favour of selective education think that their DC will pass the test. They seem to overlook the fact that the majority won't. I'm not a fan, myself.