I’m not quite clear why you wished your child to go to Sutton when you don’t live anywhere near that area and are not able to move, though I appreciate last year you may have felt it was maximising your son’s chances of a grammar school place by entering him in multiple areas on a score based system.
The others are correct that attempting to move closer carries no weight whatsoever for appeal: the schools admission criteria are very clear that moves into the geographical area in order to live close to school should be done before the examination October, and in some cases well before that, some evenbefore the exam is registered for. (each school is different).
Passing one other GS exam also doesn’t carry weight for an appeal. As the links above explain, if you do appeal it will be for oversubscription and based on distance alone it is unlikely to succeed unless you can demonstrate why the advantage to your DS outweighs the disadvantage of overfilling the school.
At 10 miles away you can’t argue that other school journeys are much trickier for him, you are unlikely to have a large cohort of his social support going there… there’s
not a lot to suggest why he has to go there (other than it’s a school you would like for him). Sorry not to sound more encouraging.
Is the grammar school place offer in Sutton one you have accepted? If so, you’d better start working out if you really can’t relocate, as the Local Authority has done their duty to allocate you a space for him, and if you turn down Sutton, you will be reallocated a “spare” space at the nearest available non selective in Buckingham (which will probably be an underperforming one that other parents have not chosen, hence having spaces.)
The others are correct that attempting to move closer carries no weight whatsoever for appeal: the schools admission criteria are very clear that moves into the geographical area in order to live close to school should be done before the examination October, and in some cases well before that, some evenbefore the exam is registered for. (each school is different).
Passing one other GS exam also doesn’t carry weight for an appeal. As the links above explain, if you do appeal it will be for oversubscription and based on distance alone it is unlikely to succeed unless you can demonstrate why the advantage to your DS outweighs the disadvantage of overfilling the school.
At 10 miles away you can’t argue that other school journeys are much trickier for him, you are unlikely to have a large cohort of his social support going there… there’s
not a lot to suggest why he has to go there (other than it’s a school you would like for him). Sorry not to sound more encouraging.
Is the grammar school place offer in Sutton one you have accepted? If so, you’d better start working out if you really can’t relocate, as the Local Authority has done their duty to allocate you a space for him, and if you turn down Sutton, you will be reallocated a “spare” space at the nearest available non selective in Buckingham (which will probably be an underperforming one that other parents have not chosen, hence having spaces.)
Statistics: Posted by Aethel — Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:03 pm