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Market Lane
Wells-next-the-sea
Norfolk
NR23 1RB
| NOR May 2026 | |
|---|---|
| Yr 7 | 114 |
| Yr 8 | 132 |
| Yr 9 | 126 |
| Yr 10 | 118 |
| Yr 11 | 112 |
| Total | 602 |
School admission policy : 2026/27 (Agreed)
THIS SCHOOL WAS OVER-SUBSCRIBED FOR SEPTEMBER 2025
If the number of applications exceeds availability, students will be allocated school places in the following order of priority by Norfolk Admissions:
1. Children with an EHCP (education, health and care plan) or statement of special educational needs naming the school.
2. Children who are in public care (LAC) or who have been adopted from public care (Post LAC) who are due to transfer.
3. Children who have a sibling on roll at APHS at the time of the proposed admission. .
4. Children of staff working for Wensum Trust
5. Children living nearest to APHS, by straight line distance (“as the crow flies”
If all children within any of the above rules cannot be offered a place, the highest priority will be given to children living nearest to the school within that rule. To determine who lives nearest, distance will be measured on a straight-line ‘crow fly’ basis, using Ordnance Survey data. If following the application of admission rules and distance two applicants cannot be separated for a final place at a school the authority will use random allocation to determine the priority for the remaining place.
School admission policy : 2027/28 (Proposed)
If there are more applications for places than there are places available, the LA Admissions will admit children in the following order of priority:
- Looked after children (previously known as children in the care of the Local Authority) and all previously looked after children. 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 arrangement order or special guardianship order).
- Children who have a sibling on roll at APHS at the time of the proposed admission. Siblings are “brothers or sisters living at the same address including adopted children, step brothers, step-sisters and children in foster care within a family unit.
- Children of staff working for Wensum Trust:
a. where the member of staff has been employed at any Wensum Trust school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the Alderman Peel High School is made or
b. where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. - Children attending one of our designated feeder schools and living within the catchment area of the school in accordance with the boundaries drawn up by the LA.
- Children attending one of our designated feeder schools and not living in catchment area of the school in accordance with the boundaries drawn up by the LA.
- Children living nearest to APHS, by straight line distance (“as the crow flies”).
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.