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Please take note of this very sound advice from Etienne. Concentrate on the positive reasons for wanting your preferred school. Do not in general terms attempt to criticise your alternative school. It is likely to lose you sympathy rather than gain it - your allocated school gets high results and good reports and is generally well regarded; and you must remember that the same panel that hears your case may well be hearing or have heard cases in areas where the alternative school has been in special measures and has very poor exam results. Unless you have some very specific social reason, such as your child or another member of your family having been bullied or harmed by a child at that school, I would be inclined to steer clear of comment on social aspects, particularly if they are opinion rather than solid fact.My advice would be not to overdo it!
You have some good, solid, positive reasons for your preference. Emphasise these.
In the normal admissions round all appeals for a particular school are generally held in a block and no decisions about which places are awarded are made until the end. Sometimes the first part of the appeal for an oversubscribed school (where the school must prove that it is full and that to take extra pupil(s) will cause prejudice to those already there) is heard for everybody at the same time, to save masses of people going through the same process time and time again. Then following the hearing of all the appeals, decisions are made. Thus nobody is disadvantaged by the timing of their appeal.How does this affect places? Presumably the closer to September that your appeal takes place the more likely they are to not have places and be less inclined to grant appeals?