Hiya
I need an advice and suggestion from experienced mums.My DD has passed Ripon,Skipton and Heckmondwike grammar schools test with flying colors.Now please can you suggest which school is best and area as well.We have two boys still in primary school so will prefer a place with best primary schools as well.So confused as this is a big decesion.

Where do you live now?

Which did you prefer when you looked round them?

Unless you live within the Ripon catchment or within a few miles of it you don’t really have much hope of getting in - unless you apply for boarding.

Ripon and Skipton are both in the top 100 schools in the country (Heckmondwike may be too but you’d have to look that up).

My dd went to Ripon as does my next door neighbour’s child (their younger child is expecting/hoping to go in Sept 2019) fabulous school.

It really does depend where you live and the feel you get for each school when you visited.

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We are in Leeds but will move near the best school for our DD.She is very polite and we don’t want to put her in an environment where she faces problems.

Unfortunately couldn’t attend any open evening ☹️

Can you suggest an area with best primary school near one of these grammar schools .

You should call the schools and arrange to visit each and chat with the senior management. Also look around the local areas and work out the transport logistics for each school. It sounds like Heckmondwike might not be the best fit for you but look around the schools for comparison.

No-one can tell you which is best for your own personal circumstance.

WRT Primary, search the gov.uk school website with the postcode for each school to see the stats for each nearby primary:
https://www.compare-school-performance. ... =undefined

It comes down to how likely you are to get into each of the schools - bearing in mind that you have to put in the CAF in Leeds very soon (and using your Leeds address)

1) Ripon - as Snowdrops explained there probably no chance as there is a catchment area (that won't reach Leeds) and nearly all the places will be be taken up by people in the catchment area

2) Heckmonndwike - I don't know the area well, you really need to visit

3) Skipton - well you can get to and from Leeds on the train reasonably easily, there are good primaries around. However - they offer to PP, first then catchment and then outside area by distance. Not sure how far it goes these days but probably no more than 10 miles (Keighley / Ilkley)

Are you going to try GSAL??

Well unless you can move within the next week (when submissions for ny schools need to be in) then neither Ripon nor Skipton will be available to you. They will use your place of residence at the time of caf submission so moving afterwards won’t help.

The only thing you can do now, if Heckmondwike really isn’t for you, is to request a boarding place at Ripon on your caf submission. At Ripon you can do weekly boarding and you only pay for the boarding element, not the educational element so cheaper than independents. Weekly boarding means your dc will come home on a Friday night and return to school on a Sunday night.

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