My advice is to get on and complete that CAF!!
Leaving it to the last minute will cause intense stress if there is a portal error (has been happening over in Liverpool)
If your child is well below the 180 then it’s your decision and hopefully someone local will confirm the score you describe but it does sound like quite a long way short for an OOC candidate at first glance. Might you appeal? Would
you be happy to sit on the waiting list? you need to name the school and be turned down in order to be on the waiting list or place an Appeal.
What’s important is putting at least one “definite” non selective school on the form where you have a chance of a place by being in catchment/on feeder priority. If you just list “five schools you like” you risk getting none of these and beinf allocated, and an under-demand school that you didn’t name at all being given to you instead.
prioritise in your GENUINE preference order. Good luck
Leaving it to the last minute will cause intense stress if there is a portal error (has been happening over in Liverpool)
If your child is well below the 180 then it’s your decision and hopefully someone local will confirm the score you describe but it does sound like quite a long way short for an OOC candidate at first glance. Might you appeal? Would
you be happy to sit on the waiting list? you need to name the school and be turned down in order to be on the waiting list or place an Appeal.
What’s important is putting at least one “definite” non selective school on the form where you have a chance of a place by being in catchment/on feeder priority. If you just list “five schools you like” you risk getting none of these and beinf allocated, and an under-demand school that you didn’t name at all being given to you instead.
prioritise in your GENUINE preference order. Good luck
Statistics: Posted by Aethel — Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:37 am