As Scarymum says, the Bucks test is entirely cachement-based and then (for any unallocated places) distance based…. so being more than 10 miles away from the target GS makes a place very unlikely (considerably less in some Bucks GSs : Bucks issue tables each year of allocation distances)
There are a few priority places (check individual schools) such as Looked After Children, Pupil Premium, family sibling, staff members’ children, but in practice these are for children pretty local to the school. Crucially Bucks has ZER0 score-based places, unlike Berkshire where children at the Slough or Reading grammars can with a super-high score be given a plave when they come from miles and miles away.
So the two consortia are completely different in how they operate.But for a Bucks place you need to live in or just on the border of Bucks. If you live in Bucks or move permanently to Bucks sufficiently far in advance (schools vary here too) , then yes a place is achievable, but the remote-application-then-dive-in-to-get-a-place is complicated, and probably not worth the hassle.
There are a few priority places (check individual schools) such as Looked After Children, Pupil Premium, family sibling, staff members’ children, but in practice these are for children pretty local to the school. Crucially Bucks has ZER0 score-based places, unlike Berkshire where children at the Slough or Reading grammars can with a super-high score be given a plave when they come from miles and miles away.
So the two consortia are completely different in how they operate.But for a Bucks place you need to live in or just on the border of Bucks. If you live in Bucks or move permanently to Bucks sufficiently far in advance (schools vary here too) , then yes a place is achievable, but the remote-application-then-dive-in-to-get-a-place is complicated, and probably not worth the hassle.
Statistics: Posted by Aethel — Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:11 am