“I want to know I'm taking the right approach to my child’s application”

Before allocation of school places we can advise on:

• The likelihood of someone living at a particular address being allocated a place at a particular school.
• How to make the most of your three preferences to increase your chances of success.
• The chances of a particular set of circumstances being considered favourably by the County Council panel assessing applications under the exceptional social and medical rule (admissions rule 2)
• If moving house is an option, where to move to if you want to maximise your chances, under current admissions rules, of getting a place at a particular school and how this can be achieved in line with the County Council’s rules and will not fall foul of their rigorous checks.

It is important to remember that allocation day is simply the start of the process by which pupils are allocated school places. In the six months between allocation day and the start of the school year, a surprising number of children achieve a place at the school of their choice, even though they were not initially allocated a place at that school.