Cranford Community College is a highly popular academy school and heavily oversubscribed. In 2023, More than 80% of places offered at secondary transfer were to first choices.
Those wishing a place in Year 7 at the academy in September are advised to:
Places are allocated in order of the admissions criteria as set out in the admissions policy (See below).
A) Pan-London Admissions Timetable
(Applies to all local authorities and individual school / academy admission authorities)
This process is for Children born between 1 September and 31 August , currently in Year 6, who will transfer to secondary school in September .
Secondary Transfer: The Application Process
All applications must be made to your home local authority (the council you live in / pay your council tax to). You must use their common application form.
You should use this form to apply for schools in and outside of Hounslow, except independent fee-paying schools.
C) how School Places Are Allocated
All schools are required to set their admission criteria in the Admissions Policy on their website. The admission criteria are how they decide who they can give their school places to. Other personal circumstances e.g., childcare or transport arrangements cannot be considered.
Your application will be ranked in one criterion only.
Each school will have different criteria. Make sure you check the admission criteria for the schools you are interested in.
You can apply for six schools. We strongly recommend you use all six preferences. You should list all your schools in order of preference with your most preferred school as number one.
If you only list one school this does not mean you will be given this school and does not give you a higher priority.
The more schools you list, the more chances you have of being offered a school that you want.
If the admission authority of the schools you have listed cannot give your child a place, then you will be given a place at any school that still has vacancies after all the applications have been considered. This might be a school you did not consider and could be some distance away from your home.
D) Cranford’s Admission Criteria (years 7 - 11)
(PLEASE READ THE FULL DETAILS IN THE ADMISSIONS POLICY) The criteria below have been summarised as follows:
Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names the school will be allocated a place before any other allocations are made.
Where the number of children applying by the published closing date exceeds the number of places published, the applications are considered in the following order of priority:
Regardless of their role in the academy, children of any member of staff in either or both of the following circumstance:
1Distance Tie breaker
If there is one place available and two or more children next in order of priority meet the appropriate criterion equally, the place will be allocated using distance*
Prospective students can apply here for a programme of study in the sixth form at Cranford Community College.
Please watch this video by students and staff at the academy.
Enrolment takes place at the academy, immediately after GCSE results have been released.
Standard enrolment closes on or before 1 October each year but places always fill up very much earlier so prompt enrolment, immediately following the publication of examination results, is highly recommended.
Some courses for are already full. Don't delay.
Places or Offers will be withdrawn if fraudulent or misleading information is given by the applicant or if relevant information is not disclosed at the outset. The matter may also be referred to the police.
For the minimum academic entry requirements to enrol on courses for, please see below. These requirements are applied identically for internal and external students.
The oversubscription criteria for external applicants to the sixth form are applied in the same order of priority as the rest of the academy. Meetings to discuss courses and discuss options do not form part of the decision process on whether to offer a place.
Cranford students (who attended in Year 11) only need to complete an enrolment form and do not need to apply, An enrolment form will be added HERE in due course.
Cranford students must still meet the academic entry requirements for the sixth form and the subjects they will study in order to be accepted in the sixth form and for particular courses.
The agreed MINIMUM ACADEMIC ENTRY REQUIREMENTS for the sixth form and individual courses can be found via this link.
External students need to complete an admissions application form online. You will need to bring proof of ALL their GCSE qualifications and their passport to enrol on DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Information and documentation, verbal or written, which is provided during the application process and subsequently found to be untrue, falsified, incomplete or deliberately misleading, will result in the withdrawal of the place even once a student has started at the academy and fraudulent applications will be referred to the police.
For any queries, please contact the academy using the 'Contact Us' tab on this website > Enquiries > Head of Admissions.
Applications for a place at other times and other year groups can only be made directly to the academy (not via a local authority), using the application forms below.
The Academy Trust of Cranford Community College is the academy's admissions authority and is responsible for admitting students to the academy in accordance with the national School Admissions Code
There is also additional guidance on admission priorities for children adopted from state care outside of England and the on local Fair Access Protocols.
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