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Yep: We moved about a mile to make sure eldest got into an OK school.
Our old place - which we loved - was about 50m outside the "catchment area" of the only school we really liked.
There was no guarantee which school the eldest would have got into - there is no such thing as school "choice" in those situations.
We looked at renting our place out and renting somewhere nearer (but they've rightly put a stop to that), and also buying a second smaller place with the view to returning to the original place a few years later.
In the end we sold up and moved. At great expense and stress.
Eldest will start at the school we wanted in September. But she actually won a music scholarship to another OK school, and I suspect if we'd stayed in the old place she would have got in under furthest distance as demand each year is different.
But hey!
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Anyone moved house to be in the right catchment area? I don't mean relocate, I mean literally moved a few blocks