I want to place a selective school as my first preference. If my child fails the 11 plus, will my chances at other schools be jeopardised?
Under the new co-ordinated system, the answer to this is quite simple. If the other school (not the selective school) operates under the Equal Preference System then it will not make any difference which other schools you have applied to – even if they have a higher preference on your CAF. If they operate outside the EPS and directly instruct the LEA to inform them of preferences, it is highly likely that putting the selective school first will jeopardise your chances. As the vast majority of schools do use the EPS, any that do not are likely to give a lot of importance to where they are on your preference list; otherwise they would not have made this request to the LEA. An example situation is that of faith schools. Faith schools tend to have very good results. Subsequently many parents will apply to a selective school and then place their local faith school as a back-up option. Many faith schools have now taken a stand against this as it disadvantages the applicants that the school o
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