School admission policy : 2026/27 (Agreed)
If the academy is oversubscribed,
priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria
set out below, in order:
Looked After Children and
Previously Looked After Children including those children who appear to the
academy to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state
care as a result of being adopted.2 A Looked After Child is either a child who
is in the care of a local authority, or being provided with accommodation by a
local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (definition
used is in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). Previously Looked After
Children are those who were looked after but ceased to be so because they were
adopted or became subject to a child arrangement order or special guardianship
order immediately following having been looked after.
Children with a sibling attending
the school at the time of application. Sibling is defined at paragraph 2.6 of the
Trust’s admission policy.
Other children by distance from
the academy, with priority for admission given to children who live nearest to
the academy.
If there are not enough places to
satisfy all applications under any one criterion, priority will be given to in
accordance with proximity to the academy. Where two or more applicants live an
equal distance from the academy and it is not possible to differentiate between
them, priority will be determined by a random allocation process. This process
will be independently verified by someone independent of the academy and OAT.
