ANNEX 4

CO-ORDINATED ADMISSIONS ARRANGEMENTS IN OXFORDSHIRE

PROPOSED SECONDARY ADMISSION RULES FOR 
COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED SCHOOLS IN 2005

Introduction

Parents/carers will be able to list up to three maintained schools on the common application form.

Each preference will be considered as a separate application.

If there are more applications than places available at the school, all applications will be considered against the published admission rules for that school, irrespective of the preference expressed.

If a child meets the admission rules for more than one of the preferred schools a place will be made available at the highest ranked of the schools that could be offered. This avoids the possibility of multiple offers to some children while others receive no offer of a place.

Unfortunately the County Council cannot guarantee that a child will receive a place at one of the schools for which a parent/carer has expressed a preference.

The Admissions Rules

The admission rules are given below in descending order of priority.

1. 	Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs that names the school in Part 4 of the Statement. 

2.	 Looked After Children for whom there is an agreement between a designated officer acting on behalf of the County Council as Corporate Parent and a designated officer of the LEA that the school will more appropriately meet the child’s needs than the child’s catchment school.

3.	Disabled children who need to be admitted to an accessible school. The definition of disability is that contained within the Disability Discrimination Act as amended. 

4. 	Children living in the school’s designated catchment area. If there are more applicants than places in this category priority will be given in the following descending order:

(a)	First priority in category 4 will go to those children who have brothers or sisters already at the school. However, if there are more applicants than places priority will be given, within this group, to those children who live closest to the school using the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning and Culture’s Geographic Information System. 
 
(a)	Second priority in category 4 will go to those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning & Culture’s Geographic Information System.

5.	Children living outside the designated catchment area who have brothers or sisters who already attend the preferred school. If there are more applicants than places priority will be given, within this group, to those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning & Culture’s Geographic Information System.

6.	Children who attend a partner school, and live outside the designated catchment area. If there are more applications than places priority will be given, within this group, to those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning & Culture’s Geographic Information System.

7.	Those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning & Culture’s Geographic Information System.

ADMISSION RULES FOR CHERWELL SCHOOL

1. 	Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs that names the school in Part 4 of the Statement. 

2.	 Looked After Children for whom there is an agreement between a designated officer acting on behalf of the County Council as Corporate Parent and a designated officer of the LEA that the school will more appropriately meet the child’s needs than the child’s catchment school.

3.	Disabled children who need to be admitted to an accessible school. The definition of disability is that contained within the Disability Discrimination Act as amended.

4. 	Children living in the school’s designated catchment area. If there are more applicants than places in this category priority will be given to the following children in descending order of priority:

(a)	Those who live in the designated catchment area of Wolvercote Primary School. However, if there are more applicants than places priority will be given, within this group, to those children who live closest to the school using the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning and Culture’s Geographic Information System. 

(b)	Those children who have brothers or sisters already at the school. However, if there are more applicants than places priority will be given, within this group, to those children who live closest to the school using the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning and Culture’s Geographic Information System. 

(c)	Those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning & Culture’s Geographic Information System.

5)	Those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning & Culture’s Geographic Information System.

ADMISSION RULES FOR PEERS SCHOOL

1. 	Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs that names the school in Part 4 of the Statement. 

2.	 Looked After Children for whom there is an agreement between a designated officer acting on behalf of the County Council as Corporate Parent and a designated officer of the LEA that the school will more appropriately meet the child’s needs than the child’s catchment school.

3.	Disabled children who need to be admitted to an accessible school. The definition of disability is that contained within the Disability Discrimination Act as amended.

4. 	Children living in the school’s designated catchment area. If there are more applicants than places in this category priority will be given to the following children in descending order of priority:

(a)	Those who live in the designated catchment area of Windale Primary School and Pegasus Primary School. However if there are more applicants than places priority will be given, within this group, to those children who live closest to the school using the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning and Culture’s Geographic Information System. 

(b)	Those children who have brothers or sisters already at the school. However, if there are more applicants than places priority will be given, within this group, to those children who live closest to the school using the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning and Culture’s Geographic Information System. 
 
(c)	Those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning and Culture’s Geographic Information System.

4.	Those children who live closest to the school by the nearest designated public route as defined on the Directorate for Learning & Culture’s Geographic Information System.

In- Year (Casual) Admissions Years 7 to 11

The Code of Practice on Admissions recommends the adoption of strategies that allow all schools to admit a more even share of children with difficulties.  In accordance with this guidance an additional three places in each year group may be made available to children in groups judged to be at significant risk of underachievement. These groups are shown below:

•	Children “Looked After” by Oxfordshire County Council

•	Children permanently excluded from another school or at significant risk of permanent exclusion

•	Traveller children

•	Child refugees/asylum seekers

•	Children released from a custodial sentence and who are not on the roll of any other school

Where necessary these children will be admitted above the admission number that applied to the year group at secondary transfer. 

Continued Interest Lists

With regard to transfer from primary to secondary school (Year 7) parents/carers will be able to place their children’s names on the continued interest list for up to 3 community or voluntary controlled schools.

These lists will be discontinued on 30 September 2005, the end of the first month in Year 7.

No continued interest lists will be maintained for any other type of transfer or year group.

Admission to an older or younger age group

The Headteacher of the current school will deal with the matter in the first instance but any late or early transfer will require the agreement of a County Council Officer.  

Where, through the agreed procedure, a pupil is transferring school outside the normal year they will be treated equally to other children in the cohort.