jj1

Thanks for letting me know, I wuold have never told that they would set such a strict requirement on Baptism! In any case my child got it a couple of weeks after birth, so I guess he should be fine :-)

Thanks for your replies! I actually was not thinking yet about secondaries, that's a good point to keep in mind. @Pugwash, I don't really understand what you mean by 'waiting list since your child was 2'. As I understand there are no waiting lists and applications are simply evaluated in the same way during the application year. We currently worship regularly in a different Parish (we would plan to move to ED about one year before the child is due to start school), and my plan was to only start speaking with the Priests in the moment we will be preparing applications... am I missign something here?

Hi all, we are starting to think where to move house for primary school applications and East Dulwich seems the best place so far! The 2 schools we were considering are St Anthony's and Heber: does anyone know how these two schools compare? Being a catholic couple, we would prefer St Anthony's, but Heber catchment are seems so small (about 200m) compared to St Anthony's (about 2 km), so I was wondering why it is like that? Is it just because of the Catholic requirement or it is because St Anthony's is less good? Also, which streets / area would you suggest to live in for a family? St'Anthony's is quite far away from the stations, so ideally we would like to move a little bit toward either north dulwich or east dulwich station. However toward North Dulwich looks so expensive, so I guess we will have to look at the triangle Barry Lane / Lordship lane / Wateley road - are there nice 2-3 bed houses there? thanks in advance for your help! JJ