jearund wrote:
Prof Pat Pending wrote:
The allocation day statistics for 2019 are available on the Council website now. They are mostly pretty full or over full - even the schools with poor OFSTED ratings in Gloucester are full.
https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/medi ... y-2019.pdfHere's an interesting puzzle. How can Pates have had 277 preferences? I thought they only qualified the first 200 or so?
Because even if your child was ranked 1200, you can name the school on your CAF. Those whose DC didn't have a 'pass' ranking may have applied because they intended to appeal (you can only appeal if you have applied and been refused a place). Or because they didn't understand what the message re their DC's results meant. Or because they were delusional. Who knows? Every year, in every area, some people use up their entire list of preferences on oversubscribed schools their DC have close to zero chance of being allocated, because they come nowhere near the top even of the 'all other applicants' category (and then usually moan that it's someone else's fault that their precious DC has been allocated a school three buses away that no one else wanted, either

).