I think if it is stressing you out then you just need to put down his name at both state and private schools and say whatever will be will be. Remember what I always say, you dont know what you don't know- and if you didn't know that you needed to put his name down earlier, then you couldnt have possibly done it (plus remember you have recently moved, so even if you had put his name down in his first year, those schools would be over an hour away now!)

I tend to agree with Bath that, for me the quality of the education students recieve in Primary School is what sets the tone for how they learn in High School- if kids are given the basic building blocks of reading, writing and maths, and are not given what I call a "toolbox" of skills which help them to learn, ie. problem solving, critical thinking etc, they are going to struggle whichever school they are educated in.

Something else to remember is that there are good and bad teachers in EVERY school in WA, we are all educated in the same institutions and are bound by the curriculum wherever we teach.

I know how consuming it is trying to decide where to educate your children, I go through the same internal struggle daily, because the local schools are not somewhere I want my kids educated- not because of the schools, or the teachers but because of the area we live in and the amount of 'other' social problems there. So for the sake of my kids education, if I cant get them across the boundaries into a neighbouring school, then I will send them to a catholic primary school- not because it is private, but because I believe it is where my children will recieve the best education.

At the end of the day only you and your DH should have a say where the kids go to school, and then it is up to your DS to make the most of the education given to him, be it private or public.