They seem to be really high this year?
Is anyone able to shine some light?

I would concur.

Also have a sneaky suspicion that Southend Local Authority (or its ‘systems’) has made a pig’s ear of the 2020 admissions process.

Well, I totally agree that they may have messed things up. There has been a confirmed case of a child offered a place and then the place was withdrawn "due to procedural error"!!

Wow. So, sorry to hear that. That would have been devastating for child and parents. Hope the child gets offered a place soon.

Something definitely went wrong. We didnt get any of the Southend schools despite being way above the Green Zone cut off - we were offered Colchester County which is also an excellent school but a lot further away. Just as we are getting used to the idea of Colchester, we get an email today saying we now actually have a place in Southend girls but need to let them now very soon. So we are in the unusual position of having 2 offers. Im quite concerned that this 'unusual' circumstance also means there is still a chance for things to go wrong. I will therefore be sending an official letter / email for the record.

Explanation posted by voyagers on the Collated cut-offs thread, quoting the WHSG HT:






https://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/11plus/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=60256&p=738045&hilit=Preferential#p738045

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The letter was from WHSB ht

Ah - not sure where I got WHSG from .

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