Norfolk Schoolfinder
Information about the school
School Road
Marshland St James
Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
PE14 8EY
| NOR May 2026 | |
|---|---|
| Nursery | 10 |
| Yr R | 12 |
| Yr 1 | 14 |
| Yr 2 | 14 |
| Yr 3 | 12 |
| Yr 4 | 13 |
| Yr 5 | 13 |
| Yr 6 | 16 |
| Total | 104 |
School admission policy : 2026/27 (Agreed)
When the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of
Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) where the Academy is
named, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the
criteria set out below:
Looked after children and previously looked after children including
those who appear (to the Admissions Authority) to have been in state care
outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
Sibling: where
the child has a sibling in the school or a sibling has already been offered a
place at the school, and where the sibling will still be attending the school
at the time of admission but not in a specialist unit or a specialist resource
base for Hearing Impaired provision or in a nursery/pre-school. Priority will
be given, where necessary, to applications where there is the smallest age gap.
Children of staff
recruited to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable
skill shortage. DEMAT is required to approve the Headteachers’ designation of
such posts and confirm the assessment that a member of staff appointed meets the
requirements of the shortage. Priority will be limited to one place for each
form of entry in any year.
All other
applicants
School admission policy : 2027/28 (Agreed)
When the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) where the Academy is named, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria set out below:
1. Looked after children and previously looked after children including those who appear (to the Admissions Authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. Sibling: where the child has a sibling in the school or a sibling has already been offered a place at the school, and where the sibling will still be attending the school at the time of admission but not in a specialist unit or a specialist resource base for Hearing Impaired provision or in a nursery/pre-school. Priority will be given, where necessary, to applications where there is the smallest age gap.
3. Children of staff recruited to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. DEMAT is required to approve the Headteachers’ designation of such posts and confirm the assessment that a member of staff appointed meets the requirements of the shortage. Priority will be limited to one place for each form of entry in any year.
4. All other applicants
In cases where there are more applicants within a criterion than there are places available, a straight- line distance measurement between the child’s home and the school will be used to rank applications. The measurement will be taken from the child’s home address which has been notified to the school and other relevant agencies as being the child’s normal place of residence7. Priority will be given to those children who live closest to the school. DEMAT will measure the distance by a straight line (‘as the crow flies’). All straight-line distances are calculated electronically using data provided jointly by the Post Office and Ordnance Survey. The data plots the co-ordinates of each property and provides the address-point between which the straight-line distance is measured and reported to three decimal places. Where there is more than one home within a single building (for example apartments) we will measure to a single point within that building irrespective of where those homes are located.
Tie breaker: If DEMAT is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria, including those who live in blocks of flats, places will be offered via a random draw which will be supervised by someone independent of the school.
Note: If the final place available at a school is offered to a twin, triplet or other multiple birth and the remaining sibling(s) would ordinarily be refused, we will offer places to the remaining sibling(s) at the same school. The law requires that this will apply even in those primary schools where this would mean that more than 30 pupils would be admitted to an infant class with a single qualified teacher.