Question regarding registering for school place for next year..

You’re not allowed to do this, I’m fairly certain you can face legal action if they find out. And the place would probably be revoked.

Catchment areas change every year based on birth rates etc, so you might be within it anyway.

If you didn’t get the place you wanted you could just appeal it and be put on the waiting list

You can't put parents address - they do follow up sometimes and she won't be down as living there on any other documentation

You can still apply though - you just are last on the list but it doesn't mean no chance.

Worth visiting the school and asking m ask for a show around (with the head or SLT , if possible). The school we wanted to apply to (for nursery) told us how many applicants they had and where from . Now, they can't do exactly that for school places (as the LEA handles those) but they can look for far away from catchment you are and let you know if children from your area hace ever been successful or not

From that info, you can choose to use it as a choice on your form, or not

I wouldn’t put your parents address down. You may find that schools which are out of the catchment area have a smaller intake. We didn’t get any of our local schools with our eldest as it was a 500m catchment or smaller but the one 3 miles away had lots of spaces as wasn’t in a heavily populated area and mostly houses not flats.