Primrosejo wrote:
They have a waiting list position and it's just a case of everyone who passed the standard but might live fitter afield is on the list based on distance from school. If they don't fill all their places then they take from the waiting list.
If you get an acceptance letter then you have a place so long as you put the school as first choice. That's the way it has always been. The Grammar schools operate on a slightly different system to comprehensives as they are allowed to select. They have their own admissions codes and CRGS is an academy so sets its own rules.
Sorry, no, whether they are grammar schools, comprehensive schools, academies, or not, they are all bound by the same Admissions Code.
The letter that Hernanmunster quotes just about conforms, IMHO, although a) it could be interpreted as implying that the school knows where you placed it on your CAF (which would contravene the code) and b) that you have to put it as your first preference (you don't - you just have to put it above any other school which is also able to offer your child a place).