Mainstream Schools -Additional Information

Parents are responsible for getting their children to and from school. The council will arrange suitable transport free of charge for:

Primary Applicants if

• a pupil at a catchment school does not have a suitable walking route from home to school or lives more than 1.5 miles away from the primary school by a suitable walking route; or
• the council asks a pupil to go to a non-catchment school and the pupil lives out-with the above distance. (This could happen if a place is not available for the pupil at a catchment primary school.)

Secondary Applicants if

• a pupil at a catchment school does not have a suitable walking route from home to school or lives more than 2.0 miles away from the secondary school by a suitable walking route; or
• the council asks a pupil to go to a non-catchment school and the pupil lives out-with the above distance. (This could happen if a place is not available for the pupil at a catchment secondary school.)

The council will not provide transport if parents choose to send their child to a non-catchment school.

More information can be found on the School Transport pages.