help please

mumsy · Post by **mumsy** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:47 pm

i have been waiting for my daughters results for bucks and berks, she has passed bucks at the mark 121 and failed berks at 108.

i live in catchement for cippenham, now i need to make a decison, will my daughter be allocated a space within burnham or more so will there even be enough places as lots of children will have had higher marks.

please help

regards

mum

Sally-Anne · Post by **Sally-Anne** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:05 pm

Hi Mum

Based on the figures for the last couple of years, your daughter should be fairly certain of getting a place at Burnham. They actually had nearly 50 vacancies in this year's Year 7 intake!

It is just possible that you may have to wait for the second round of allocations to get a place if you are not in catchment for Burnham.

Please note that for Bucks, the actual score makes no difference whatsoever to the school place allocations - 121 is as good as 141. The primary deciding factor is distance from school gates.

Sally-Anne

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:24 pm

Sally-Anne wrote: Please note that for Bucks, the actual score makes no difference whatsoever to the school place allocations - 121 is as good as 141. The primary deciding factor is distance from school gates.

Sally-Anne

slightly pedantic I know BUT deciding factor is catchment first and distance within catchment and only then distance from school out of catchment. We are in catchment though quite a distance away in Iver Heath but will come before people who may actually live closer but are out of catchment.