ToadMum wrote:
kent2017_mum wrote:
Totally confused! I just registered my name in our county admission site. They have just the name and date of birth of my child. How will they find out his 11+ score? Do I need to give more information in the reason for application?
It might be an idea to check with Kent CC, but the process should go:
- you submit your CAF to East Sussex
- East Sussex informs Kent CC that you want a place at one of their schools
- Kent CC checks with the school (or for itself, if Kent CC is the admissions authority) as to whether it can offer a place
- Kent CC informs East Sussex of the response
- East Sussex looks at the responses from all your preferences and allocates a place at the 'yes' which you ranked highest of them on your CAF.
It's how the score gets into the system, that is the question - I would think that Kent CC would check the results database and do this.
Have you actually tested the system by starting an application? You may find that when you select your Kent schools a statement about needing to have passed the Kent Test will appear.
Yes, this is what happens. Just to add that around January, the LA sends requests to all the schools named on the CAF. These schools receive the papers and respond to the LA saying whether they would or not offer a place. As you say, the local LA then collects all the positive responses and allocates a place to the highest ranked school which received a positive response.
Some schools do extra checking and would contact the parents directly with, for example, proof of address. In this case, the Kent schools who rank children according to score, such as DGS, would need to know the child's score to be able to offer a place or not. As the person's LA (in this case East Sussex) would contact KCC, it is KCC who would forward the application to the school together with the scores. This is why it takes months to allocate a school.
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