Schools catchment areas

[Susan]

Done to death I know but does anyone have any idea re. the furthest distance for non-sibling places for Goose Green and DVI for the 2013 intake

Much appreciated

[Saila]

Dvi

September 2013 552.9626 meters (increase poss due to new judith kerr school)

September 2012 543.9 meters

September 2011. 712 meters (Bulge Year)

[Susan]

Thanks Saila,

can assume that bulge yr may have an impact in the next few years.

Anyone have the same data for Goose Green?

Much appreciated

[devsdev]

How do you get this information? I've tried using the Ofsted site, but I'm obviously not as savvy a searcher as I thought I was!

Thanks

[LondonMix]

You can email the school for this years information-- they usually respond within an hour to emails of this nature in my experience. For historical information, the admissions guide Southwark publishes it for all LA schools. For academies again you have to contact them directly but they also usually respond very quickly (an hour or two).

[Susan]

Just to say I tried this with Goose Green and school office is closed until Sept 3rd

[LondonMix]

Yes, when the schools are closed this won't be the case but when they are open they respond very quickly.

James Barber posted a file with the first round distance offers for the local schools this year on the school admissions thread. However, this number is likely to have increased between now and then as people get in off the waiting list etc.

Last year (2012s) information for Goose Green is available in Southwark's guide to starting primary school.

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/2483/primary_school_admissions

[Saila]

pretty sure Goosegreen catchment was around 450m ish this year.

It's certainly less than 500m now.

edit to say - as londonmix says, you can access this sort of info from the school.

Catchments are shrinking but also the introduction of new schools will change things a bit too in the future.

Heber and Rosendale appear to have the tightest catchment areas.

DVI is half church but the catchment is quite a decent size relative to its popularity due to a lot of the village kids going private and also the lack of affordable housing around the school.

Re the bulge year for dvi - this year will now leave the school and head to the hamlet (or equivalent) as DVI is just 3 years (infants) then the sibling policy stops once they leave.

I spoke to the staff there and they said that they were surprised how little an impact the bulge year actually had on catchment. i.e. zero. But then they said that may have been due to the new Judith kerr school.

All in all, catchments are super unpredictable and/or forever shrinking BUT the huge improvement seen in other local schools is taking the pressure off the more traditionally popular schools.