{"id":20058,"date":"2024-08-14T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=20058"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:57:11","slug":"how-to-choose-a-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/education-and-learning\/choose-a-school\/how-to-choose-a-school\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose a school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are some ideas to help you choose a school:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/schools\/school\/\">Use the school directory<\/a> to see what schools are available in your area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/education-and-learning\/visiting-a-school\/\">Visit schools<\/a> to look at the facilities and talk to staff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think about how your child will travel to school \u2013 check whether they are eligible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/school-and-college-transport\/\">school transport<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discuss your child\u2019s needs with the school&#8217;s special educational needs and disabilities coordinator (SENDCo).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look at the school\u2019s website and read their SEND Information Report, this should explain how they use their funding to support children with SEND.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look at the national website&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Compare School Performance<\/a> to see schools\u2019 results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some ideas to help you choose a school:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":20054,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-20058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 13:26:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71278,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20058\/revisions\/71278"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}