I wondered if anyone might be able to offer some advice please.
We did not get an offer for any of the four preferred primary schools we could list for admission this coming September. We have been offered another school which we did not look at, did not consider and do not really want.
I have been looking at our chances of a successful appeal. In a nutshell as they would be infant class size appeals then I think our chances are non existent.
We have missed out on four local schools which others in our village, including on our road have got into (under the distance tiebreak rather than any higher criteria). We are in catchment for two of them. We seem to be slap bang in the middle of all of them, thus also furthest away from them all!
Our LA measures the radial, straight line, distance between the LLPG address points for the school and the home address. I'm sure than under the Code that this is reliable and reasonable and I'm pretty sure than I cannot claim that an error has been made. However one thing about this is bugging me.
There are a number of families who have been offered one of our preferred schools on the basis that they live closer (fair enough) BUT in the case of at least one they live further along the same road as us (thus closer to the school) but there is no exit to the main road at that end of the estate. This results in a situation where they will have to drive past our front door every morning to get to the school. We are therefore closer to the school when you take into account the (only) driving route. In the other case the distance will have been measured in a line that crosses a local ford which is only passable in a very hot dry summer, thus impassable for most of the year. Similarly we are closer to the school on the only reasonable driving route, if not on the radial distance.
I know I'm clutching at straws, and we do have a plan B which it looks likely we will have to pursue, but is there anything in this radial vs reasonable driving route that I've (badly!) explained? It just seems perverse that they will have to drive past our house every morning to get to a schools that we have not been successful for!
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
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Itspardonnotwhat · 22/04/2013 21:28
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