SECONDARY SCHOOLS (Year 7 admissions)
1. Children in Public Care.
2. Special Educational Needs:
Where the child has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities and this requires admission to the school applied for.
3. Local siblings
Those living within a school’s Area of Prime Responsibility and who have named the school as a preference.
4a. Geographical considerations
Only those living within the Area of Prime Responsibility (names and addresses of the schools which are closest to your home address can be viewed by visiting South Gloucestershire Council’s Local Connection which can be accessed from the 'Do it now' section on this page. Additionally individual maps identifying the Areas of Prime Responsibilities for secondary schools are provided in the Admission to Secondary School booklets available on line at: www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions or by contacting the Children and Young People Information Service on 01454 868008);
4b. Geographical considerations
Those living outside a school’s Area of Prime Responsibility.
5. Tie Breaker:
Where it does not prove possible to resolve allocations to an oversubscribed school by the application of criteria 1-4, any remaining places will be allocated by drawing lots.
Notes:
1. Children in Public Care are those looked after by a local authority within the meaning of Section 22 of the Children Act 1989.
2. Children with Statements of Special Educational Needs are placed in schools through the arrangements set out in the SEN Code of Practice and not through these admission criteria. All governing bodies are required by Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 to admit to the school a child with a Statement of SEN that names the school. Schools must admit such children whether they have places or not. Any appeal concerning the Statement or the admission is to the independent Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. Parents of children with Statements of SEN should contact their child’s case officer for any further information.
Where a pupil does not have a Statement of Special Educational Needs, written supporting evidence will be required to be submitted at the time of application and should set out why the preferred school is the most suitable school in view of the pupil’s condition.
Examples of physical or mental impairment include:
- mobility or co-ordination problems; or
- speech, hearing or eyesight impairment; or
- progressive conditions e.g. cancer, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy; or
- mental illness that is recognised by a professional body of medical opinion.
This evidence must include a supporting letter from a relevant professional, for example a doctor or other specialist. Parents will be responsible for submitting this evidence. If the required documents have not been supplied at the time of application the Local Authority will not be able to consider admission under this criterion. On receipt of the written evidence the Authority will seek comments from independent professional advisers when considering applications under this criterion.
3. Local Siblings: children are defined as local siblings if:
- they are half or full brother or sister; or
- they are adoptive brother or sister; or
- they are children of the same household; and
- they live within the school’s defined Area of Responsibility; and
- they have indicated that school as a preference; and
the older sibling is already in attendance at the preferred school and will be in attendance in September 2010 (years 7-11 only).
4. Geographical considerations for secondary schools (those living within a school’s Area of Prime Responsibility): Priority will be given to those children who live within the Area of Prime Responsibility for the school; where a school also has an area of First Responsibility, children living in this area will be given the highest priority.
If in any year there are more children living within the Area of Prime Responsibility than the number of places available at the school, priority will be given to those children who live closest to the school as measured by the nearest available walking route from home address to the school. Distances from home to school are measured between the address point of the child’s home and the nearest school gate, both indicated by the Routes to School Gazetteer dated 1 September 2009. All applications will be considered at the same time and the published over-subscription criteria applied.
5. Geographical consideration for secondary schools (those living outside a school’s Area of Prime Responsibility): after places have been allocated from within the Area of Prime Responsibility, any remaining places will be allocated to those children who live closest to the school as measured by the nearest available walking route from the home address to the school. Distances from home to school are measured between the address point of the child’s home and the nearest school gate, both indicated by the Routes to School Gazetteer dated 1 September 2009. All applications will be considered at the same time and the published over-subscription criteria applied.
6. Tie Breaker: Lots will be drawn by a Senior Officer of South Gloucestershire Council who is independent of the school admissions process.
CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION TO ALL YEAR GROUPS DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR 2010/2011
All other applications for places for South Gloucestershire schools during the year 2010/2011, including those to other year groups, will be considered in the order of priority shown, in accordance with the over-subscription criteria stated above.