Sacred Heart Hammersmith

[Dani1]

Hi

Wonder if anyone can throw some light on this.

Applying for DD Secondary Schools at the moment - we are a Catholic family - DD is baptised, communion and regular churchgoing family. So we have all the certificates and so on. But DD goes to a local state school in Chiswick - not the local Catholic school.

Looking on the criterion for entry at Sacred Heart - the main entry band seems to be Catholic Children from the listed Catholic Feeders schools in Hounslow, Hammersmith, Ealing, Brent, Richmond ... the list goes on and on. I know they apply a balloting system to decide who gets a place.

But given how oversubscribed the school is - I'm just wondering if DD has a any chance of being put into the ballot or if are the places are snapped up by girls from the feeder schools ?

Anyone with any idea or information - would be v. grateful !

Worth a go - It's not as oversubscribed as it used to be with year 7.

Did you get it ?

I'm not the OP, but a friend applied for her daughter for 2024 entry, also practising baptised Catholic but not at a Catholic feeder primary. They weren't offered a place on offer day and the school told them they hadn't been able to offer beyond the feeder school category. They may have offered to others now from the waiting list, I'm not sure. Might be worth trying to find out from school what was the last category offered by September 1st from the waiting list.

Thanks! My daughter is at a feeder school but just seems uncertain. I’m not sure if other girls schools on the area!

Those girls from the Hammersmith area that don’t get into SHHS either go to a local non-Catholic school or to Gumley House in Isleworth.