Anyone else applied for secondary school late?

[shadowchancesassy]

I applied for my child’s secondary school 12 days late and I’m now panicking. It’s my own fault I knew when I had to do it but kept putting it off because I had to dig out everything that I needed to do it with and I had so much going on at the time with my heath that I just couldn’t face it. I suffer with bpd and bipolar and suspected adhd and as a single parent admin falls on me alone, and with the way my brain works things like applying for a school place when I’ve got to gather lots of paperwork my brain just shuts down. I know that’s not an excuse but I’m just trying to explain why the application was so late.

there is one secondary school in our town and there’s one 5 miles away in the next town, there used to be a third 15 miles away but they stopped taking kids in from this area. All my DD’s friends are going to the one in our town they’ve all been accepted. I won’t find out for a few weeks if DD’s got a place and if she doesn’t what the hell do I do? I know i can appeal but if the schools at capacity I’m gonna be fudged. I know this is my fault and I’m so angry. I could actually cry.
anyone else in this same predicament? I really could do with some support.

She will probably be high up the waiting list so there is a good chance of being offered if others move area or go private etc. Even if not now then by September. Hopefully.

I wouldn’t panic, it is very likely she will get a place. You can call the local authority tomorrow and ask if the school still has places. If they do that might help you relax a bit until you officially find out. But even if they don’t right now, as @TeenToTwenties said you’re likely to be high on the waiting list (assuming you live fairly close) and there is almost always some movement before September.

Can you see if your local school was oversubscribed? If there is a space she should get in.

Yeah my friend for very similar if not exactly the same reasons as you.
try not to worry she has just called the council as they were lovely with her and more or less said her DS has a place at the local school.
it happens don’t worry about it too much

Thank you everyone you’ve made me feel a lot better than I did last night when I posted this. I called the admissions team this morning and our catchment school had 240 spaces and 244 applications. They have until 17th March to accept and then the late applications get allocated and we’ll find out on 23 April if my daughter has a space. She wouldn’t tell me anything else over the phone just said we need to wait. I’m hoping she gets in as it’s a 5 minute walk from our house and she knows no one who is going to the other school.

Hi, I've been looking on the threads about late admissions. We are in the same situation but we are not even in the UK now ( as in, we haven't even moved).
I'm trying to understand what UK state school admissions are like.
Should I call the school directly about applications?
Or is this sort of information easily available on their website or Ofsted reports?

Is this for a Y7 application or other years? You may want to start your own thread about this as you will get more people responding to your specific questions rather than to the OP's issue.

@AzureLK fot state schools you need to look at the Local Authority(Council) website under Secondary School Admissions for information on the process and application form.