School admission policy : 2024/25 (Agreed)
If the academy receives more applications than there are available places, priority for admission will be given to
those children who meet the oversubscription criteria set out below:
Looked After and previously Looked After children (previously looked after children are children who
were looked after and ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a Residence
Order or Special Guardianship Order.
Children who live in the catchment area and have siblings attending the academy at the time of their
admission.
Children who live within the catchment area.
Children who live outside of the catchment area with siblings attending the academy at the time of
their admission.
Children living outside the catchment area and have no siblings attending the academy at the time of
admission
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School admission policy : 2025/26 (Agreed)
If the number of
applications is less than the number of spaces, then all children will be
offered places.
Where a child has an
Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which names the academy, that child will
be admitted and the number of available places reduced accordingly.
Admissions
Policy 2025-2026
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. 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 arrangements order or special guardianship
order, immediately following having been looked after.
Children
with a sibling attending the academy at the time of application.
Other
children by distance from the academy, with priority for admission given to
children who live nearest to the academy as defined in section 2.4 of this
policy.
If there are not enough
places to satisfy all applications under any one criterion, priority will be
given to a child 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.
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School admission policy : 2026/27 (Proposed)
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.
If you would like to comment on the above proposed admissions policy please email admissions@norfolk.gov.uk, letting us know which school's policy you want to comment on, and any comments on it that you would like to share with us.
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