This policy will apply to all admissions for the academic year 2022/23 including in year applications.
Please see a list at the end of this document for community junior schools and their published admission numbers (PAN’s).
If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be considered first according to the priorities in the order set out below:
1. These are defined as Looked after Children and all previously looked after children, including those children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order
2. Children or families who have a significant medical, physical, psychological or social need. Evidence must be attached. Applications under this criterion must be supported by written evidence from an appropriate professional involved stating clearly why the preferred school is the most appropriate for the child and reasons why other schools in the city are inappropriate. Please see Additional Information.
3. Children living within the school’s designated catchment area. If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, applicants will be ranked within this category in accordance with the priorities in 4. below.
4. Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order:
i) Children who have a brother or sister (living in the same household) already on roll and who will still be attending the school or an adjacent infant school the following academic year.
Note – this category does include step-brothers/step-sisters, adoptive brothers/sisters living within the same household or children whose parents are married or cohabiting and live together within the same household.
ii) Children eligible for service premium
Note – service premium is paid to eligible children of armed services personnel under S14 of the Education Act 2002
iii) Children of staff employed at the school (or school on an adjacent site)
(a) where the member of staff has been employed at the school for 2 or more years at the time at which the application is made, and or
(b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage
iv) Children attending, at the time of application, a named feeder infant school; Please see list of feeder infant schools at the end of this document.
v) Children who live closest to the school, based on the shortest distance from home to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. (This distance will be used where necessary to prioritise applications). Should there be two or more identical distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done by casting lots. Please see Additional Information.
Note: should the school be oversubscribed from within any of the criteria above, then any additional criteria will be used to prioritise applications within these categories.