Just for the record, the most recent OFSTED report on both schools (the years compared are different) shows that Manor College (Preferred choice) is a far better school. It out scores St Hild's on every level.
Manor College
St Hild's
In the Daily Mail report, the council sad:
If there are more applications for a school than there are places as there are this year in the case of Manor, English Martyrs and High Tunstall, we make allocations for community schools and foundation schools in accordance with the published admissions arrangement.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=559026&in_page_i d=1770
I thought I would check the geography of the schools involved.
Map here The preferred school also appears to be the nearest and the allocated one the furthest away. It seems odd that the girls present school is of a similar distance to her home in Seaton Carew. The catchment area for the school. Presumably there is a school nearer to her home which for some reason they did not put in her 4 choices.
In this instance it seems stupid to be allocated the school that she has. Eexporting the child to her aunts is extreme. There is an appeals proc