Seeing as there are threads for 2014 and 2016 - thought would start one for 2015.

DD will start next year, until very recently I was 100% sure of where she would go - the state school at the bottom of the road - as it has a very good rep, is easily walkable and has a bilingual program.

She probably will still go there, but recently have been wondering at the sense of our plan. We live in a small two bed flat, the area is very expensive - we can live here ok for a good few more years but will have to move at some point - but may never be able to afford to buy here. The public high schools are good enough here so that is a benefit of staying round here.

The zone for the primary school may change our flat is not likely to ever move out of it as is bang in center but the availability of 3 bed housing to buy or rent within the zone at the moment is limited and if the zone shrinks is likely to be even more so, and it seems that in future if you move out of zone even siblings won't necessarily get a place.

I wonder if we would be better off living elsewhere (a better demographic/ideology fit), but then I think the decision is probably too late to make before starting of primary schools - as don't enrollments have to be in May sort of time? Plus don't really have an idea of where to go :-) Also DD also refers to it as her school and talks about it all the time. She doesn't have a specific friend who will go there as a lot of her childcare friends will either go to private school or are in a different zone for primary - but she does know a few people who will go there.