Admissions Policy

Statutory enrolment forms are available in the January of the year your child is due to start year one. The admissions criteria below is also published in the Open Enrolment Booklet (from SEELB). Please ensure that your completed form is sent to the school by the allocated closing date.

Year 1 Intake

Admission to Y1 children of compulsory school age i.e. age 4 on or before 1st July. Priority will be given to:

  1. * children who have a brother or sister attending the school and who reside not more than 4 miles from the school
  2. children who reside not more than four miles from the school
  3. * children who have a brother or sister attending the school who reside more than four miles from the school
  4. children with special circumstances, that is social, medical, security - for which supporting evidence has been made available
  5. children whose brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, parent, guardian is a former pupil of the school
  6. children who reside more than four miles from the school

* If oversubscribed in Criteria 1 and 3 above, priority will be given to those with two or more children currently attending the school.

Year 2 to Year 7 Intake

Providing that each class as a whole, is not oversubscribed, priority will be given to:

  1. children who have a brother or sister attending the school and who reside not more than four miles from the school
  2. children who reside or come to reside not more than four miles from the school
  3. children with special circumstances, that is social, medical, security - for which supporting evidence has been made available
  4. children who reside more than four miles from school

Note

The qualifying distance from the school is the shortest walking distance by road. In the even of oversubscription in any one of the above criteria, children who live closest to the school will be given priority.