Pupils and parents across Bristol have until 15 March to accept or reject their secondary school placement. Bristol City Council have confirmed that 92% of families have been offered a place at one of their top three preferred schools and that all families who applied for a place at Bristol schools have been offered a place.
This comes as some parents from Wicklea Academy in Wick Road, who had selected Oasis Academy in Brislington as their choice for secondary school, have been advised their children have been offered a place in a Hartcliffe school. They said none of the parents had indicated this school as a preference.
Parents were concerned that the school is over five miles away, which they said would need a 10 mile bus journey into the city centre and then to Hartcliffe, changing buses on the way. This would mean catching a bus at 6.30am and only arriving home at 5.30pm or, alternatively, endure a one and half hour walk.
