Moving DS at start of Yr 10

[The6thQueen]

Due to issues with school financial viability, we are considering moving our children schools. DD is currently yr6, so would start as a new yr 7. I think she would be ok.
DS is currently yr 9, very happy and settled socially, but as I say we’re worried about viability of current school as he starts GCSEs.
Anyone have a happy story of moving a content kid at the start of yr 10? I don’t want to screw him up socially!
GCSE options are fine, they run all the same subjects.

Go for it.
Now is pretty much your last chance for 2 years. You will spend his GCSE years panicking about the schools viability if you don't do it.

Better to move now rather than ending up with a 'panic' move in Year 11 when he's half way through his GCSEs, they may run the same subjects but not necessarily study things in the same order.

Apply sooner rather than later for your currently year 9 DS and be prepared for a state school with a place available now to expect him to start during the summer term rather than having the place kept open until September. Also, if nowhere has a a place available, applying now and appealing the decision now gives time for the appeal(s) to be heard during the summer term, rather than not until after the start of year 10 if you wait.

Have you already got a place for your DD in the normal admissions round? If not, with regard to appeals for a place for your DD, you will be making a late application for year 7 transfer, so a school which has a place available obviously won't expect her to start until September, but if there are no places available and you need to appeal, the sooner you start the process, the more likely it is that an effort will be made to include your appeal(s) with the main group of appeals, for which the LA's/ individual schools' deadline may already have passed (the requirement is to allow a minimum of 20 school days from the refusal of a place (Monday 3rd March this year).

I would move him now. My Dd moved after Easter of year 9, and it meant she had a term to settle before GCSES started.

No experience but move him ASAP. My son’s state school starts the GCSE curriculum in year 9 (they choose GCSEs at end of year 8 and can change subjects until Xmas of year 9) and many local schools do the same. So be aware of that possibility too when looking at school options.

Do it.

But particularly with your son, start the process now, start looking at schools, contacting them to ask about places & if you find one with a space that you like get your son in asap.

You have missed the admissions process for new year 7, but if your son gets a place at a school usually that helps with priority for year 7.