The infants in DV is a CoE school and it used to be only open to children within the Parish of St Barnabas and it helped if you were a regular St Barnabas attendee. The parish was roughly bounded by the railway lines sort of west (I think) along East Dulwich Grove to Herne Hill and then south (again with railway line as the boundary)to the south circular and then east till about the Roseberry (?) Gate on Dulwich common and an imaginary line across Dulwich Park up Eynella Road Down Lordship Lane to Mr Luis and along Melbourne Grove back to East Dulwich Grove. (Phew) Anyway this threw up some anomalies such as one side of Melbourne, and one side of Eynella, was in and one out. Also if you were the wrong side of the tracks (so to speak) in Burbage for instance. This led to lots of appeals, wailing, gnashing of teeth etc, etc. The last I heard was that it all depended on how close you were to the school itself and attendance at St B's, so even if you were in the Parish you might not get in. I also think they dropped the sibling policy. Similar, although not a Church school, with DHJS It's all a question of how close you are to the school, the catchment varies from year to year although I believe there is an appeals procedure and I think there might be social mix issues too which might make a difference to an application, but I don't know that for sure.