Buying home in school catchment area then move out 3 years later...?

Falkirkgal

Once you are in the school you would not be asked to move schools due to house move. So your plan would be fine. It would be very unusual to not get into your local school in Scotland.

ellie27

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

If you were to move further away a couple of years after your children start Primary, OP, what impact will that have on the choice of Secondary school? Would they go to the same one as their friends, or potentially a different one?

There are 4 primary schools that all feed into the one secondary school. So if we did this move several years down the line then they would still go onto the same secondary school.


We have looked at renting in the area but there is nothing at all that would suit.

jennifernil

There is one very desirable school in Glasgow where you have no chance of getting your children in unless you are actually living in the catchment area when they are born.

duchy

Once the child is in the school you could move thirty miles away as I did and still keep the place. It was a very long school run for the last year of primary !

ellie27

jennifernil wrote: »

There is one very desirable school in Glasgow where you have no chance of getting your children in unless you are actually living in the catchment area when they are born.

Oh, which one is that? I am pretty sure its not anywhere near where we are going. We are heading to Lenzie. Is it around Jordanhill area? Thats where my brother lives and have done so since son was born 6 yrs ago and they still cant get him into the primary they want!

onlyroz

You definitely need to check out the admission stats before committing to a house. In our local school there were kids who lived two streets away that didn't get in.

stef73

Check the stats as onlyroz says, when my eldest went to primary school it was a bumper year people on a road 3 roads away got in at 1 end of road but didnt from the other end of the road.

wiogs

Falkirkgal wrote: »

Once you are in the school you would not be asked to move schools due to house move. So your plan would be fine. It would be very unusual to not get into your local school in Scotland.

Not that unusual at all.

jennifernil

ellie27 wrote: »

Oh, which one is that? I am pretty sure its not anywhere near where we are going. We are heading to Lenzie. Is it around Jordanhill area? Thats where my brother lives and have done so since son was born 6 yrs ago and they still cant get him into the primary they want!

Yes, Jordanhill.

Jordanhill School has both primary and secondary departments.

The catchment area was "closed" several years back, since then quite a lot of new houses have been built near the school, but these houses are excluded from the catchment area. It's a strange situation.

I know a couple who bought a house in the catchment area just before their second child was born. First child (2 years older) did not get into the school, second child did.

Once you have a sibling in the school, you have a better chance of getting other children in, so they got a place for the first child the following year.

The rules there are very strict. It you rent a house in the hope of getting your child in, and then move away, you are quite likely to lose the place.

You should be OK in Lenzie, Lenzie Academy has a good reputation.

onlyroz

I should add that one of the issues last year was the number of sibling placements - 16 out of a class of 30. So my daughter got in because her brother is already at the school when other children who live closer missed out.