Two Year 7 Applications - Different Counties

[Shambles123]

If I complete two different year 7 applications for two different counties - A and B (we are on the border of county A) will I jeopardise anything? Our reachable part of each county has one good school - the county A one also needs church attendance, which we have done. If they were in the same county I would do church school first preference and B's school second preference but there aren't any other schools in our part of A that I would use.

You can only apply in the district you live in, but list schools in both counties.

So I would put the school in county B on the county A list even though it isn't under county A jurisdiction?

Yes. County A will coordinate with county B.

Thank you!

If school A is your first preference you should list it first. If you don’t qualify for a place, that doesn’t jeopardise your chance of a place at your second choice. But if you list another school, school
B, first and qualify for it and school A, you will be offered B as you listed it higher.

It's one application surely?

We live in Surrey and my Surrey CC form had:
1st preference - school in London
2nd preference - school in Sussex
3rd preference - school in Surrey

(She got 1st preference)

I applied for one school only in one county and one school only in another. DS got a place in both and we accepted the one we wanted.

Yes, school A is preference and we have done church as per the rules. I would be hopeful of a place but it is always oversubscribed and dc has no siblings and isn't from the feeder primary schools.

B and a private school exam are back up, just thought I might widen back up.

Three counties!

We put a school in the neighbouring county first and DD has just started year 7 there.
It literally tells you to do this on the LEA website. Have you not read that?

Which is two offers rather than an offer instead of A if A oversubscribed. This seems nice in my freaking out brain!

Could easily have been four - I live on a multi-county intersection.

Made system very smooth as everyone in the area has at least 2 counties on the form as those are the "nearest" secondaries and council used to handling it.

You only get the one offer though.

Yeh I thought you only got one offer tbh.

I live in a city that is its own authority, and the county is a separate authority; it's very common for parents to list the school in the city and also the nearby (3 miles away) very popular school in the county – on the same form, and you just get offered one of them.

OP the key things are a) put the one you prefer first on the list b) use all your slots c) put your local school on there as even if you are not keen, it's better than a far away one you also are not keen on. Which is what you risk if you don;t list your catchment school.