Canons High School

Admissions Arrangements

The Governing Body of Canons High School (the “Academy Trust”) is the admissions authority for Canons High School. The Academy Trust will comply with the requirements of the Funding Agreement and the School Admissions Code, and recognises that its ‘relevant area’ is the London Borough of Harrow since this is the local authority area within which the school is situated.

Admissions Over-subscription Criteria

If there are fewer applicants than there are places available for Year 7 entry in September 2023, everyone who applies will be offered a place.

Children who have an Education, Health and Care Plan or statement of special educational needs which names the school will be allocated a place at the school in accordance with their statutory entitlement.

If there are more applicants than there are places available after the admission of students with an Education, Health and Care Plan or statement of special educational needs naming the school, the following criteria will be considered, in order, to determine who will be offered a place:

• Children who are looked after or were previously looked after - A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence, child arrangements order, or special guardianship order including those who appear [to the admission authority] to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted (See below for definitions of children who are looked after or were previously looked after);
• Medical or social needs of the child – Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to a specific school because of special circumstances to do with significant medical needs and or social needs. (See below for definition of medical or social needs of the child);
• Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) - Parent(s) where there are special medical reasons for seeking a place for their child at the school. (See below for definition of medical reasons relevant to parent(s) and parent);
• Siblings - Children with a brother or sister attending the school in years 7 to 11 at the time of application. The sibling link does not apply to students who are attending the sixth form in September 2022. (see below for definition of sibling);
• Children of staff of the school – Children where their parent(s) has been employed by the Academy Trust at the school for at least two years at the date of admission or where the member of staff has been recruited to a vacant post where there is a demonstrable skills shortage (see below for definition of parent); and
• Distance from home to school - Places are allocated to applicants who live closest to the school. This must be the address where parent and child normally live and they must be living there on the closing date for receipt of applications. (See below for definition of distance).

Tie-breaker

If more applications are received in any one criterion than there are places available the tiebreaker of distance from the address point for the home address to the centre point for the school site, measured in a straight line, will be applied. The school centre point is computer generated and is the centre point of a bounded polygon of the school site that includes elements such as buildings, playgrounds and car parks but excludes playing fields. In cases where applicants live equidistant from the preferred school and places cannot be offered to all of the applicants affected, the available place(s) will be allocated using a random computer selection.

Children of multiple births

In cases where there is only one place available at the school and the next child on the waiting list is one of a twin, triplet or other multiple birth group, both twins (or all the siblings in the case of other multiple births) would be admitted, even if this meant that the school would admit in excess of the admission number.