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School admission policy : 2025/26 (Agreed)

If the academy receives more applications than there are available places then children with the academy named on an education, health care plan (EHC) or equivalent will be automatically admitted to the academy. If there are still places available, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the oversubscription criteria set out below:

1. Looked after children and those who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after was adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order.

2. Children who are due to transfer and have an older brother or sister already at the school at the time of admission including sixth form. Siblings are ‘brothers or sisters living at the same address including adopted children, stepbrothers, stepsisters and children in foster care within a family unit’;

3. Children who have been offered a place under the music potential and aptitude criteria;

4. Children of staff at the school:

5. Children who are due to transfer living nearest to the academy will be measured on a straight line crow flies basis using ordnance survey data; if following the application of admission rules and distance, two applicants cannot be separated for a final place, the academy will be determined by the local authority who manages our admissions using random allocation to determine the priority for the remaining place.

Show School admission policy : 2026/27 (Agreed)

Show School admission policy : 2027/28 (Proposed)

School admission policy : 2026/27 (Agreed)

If the academy receives more applications than there are available places then children with the academy named on an education, health care plan (EHC) or equivalent will be automatically admitted to the academy. If there are still places available, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the oversubscription criteria set out below:

1. Looked after children and those who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after was adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order.

2. Children who are due to transfer and have an older brother or sister already at the school at the time of admission including sixth form. Siblings are ‘brothers or sisters living at the same address including adopted children, stepbrothers, stepsisters and children in foster care within a family unit’;

3. Children who have been offered a place under the music potential and aptitude criteria;

4. Children of staff at the school:

5. Children who are due to transfer living nearest to the academy will be measured on a straight line crow flies basis using ordnance survey data; if following the application of admission rules and distance, two applicants cannot be separated for a final place, the academy will be determined by the local authority who manages our admissions using random allocation to determine the priority for the remaining place.

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Show School admission policy : 2027/28 (Proposed)

School admission policy : 2027/28 (Proposed)

·        Where the academy receives more applications than there are places available priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the oversubscription criteria set out below:

·        Looked after children and Previously Looked After Children including those who appear to the academy to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be so 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.

·        If the academy receives more applications than there are available places then children with the academy named on an education, health care plan (EHCP) or equivalent will be automatically admitted to the academy. If there are still places available, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the oversubscription criteria set out below:

·        Children who are due to transfer and have an older brother or sister already at the school at the time of admission including sixth form. Siblings are ‘brothers or sisters living at the same address including adopted children, stepbrothers, stepsisters and children in foster care within a family unit’.

·        Children who have been offered a place under the music potential and aptitude criteria.

·        Children of staff at the school: where the member of staff has been employed by Ormiston Academies Trust to work at City of Norwich School, An Ormiston Academy for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.

·        Children who attend named feeder primary schools. Our named feeder schools are Avenue Junior School, Bignold Primary School, Colman Junior School, Cringleford CofE Primary School, Eaton Primary School, Edith Cavell Academy and Nursery, Lakenham Primary School and Tuckswood Academy.

·        Children who do not fall into any of the oversubscription categories above. Priority will be given in accordance with proximity to the academy. Children living nearest to the academy will be measured on a straight line crow flies basis using ordnance survey data; if following the application of admission rules and distance, two applicants cannot be separated for a final place, the decision will be determined by the local authority who manages our admissions using random allocation to determine the priority for the remaining place.

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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