The City Academy, Hackney

Admissions

• Applications for places at The City Academy, Hackney will be made in accordance with Hackney Learning Trust’s co-ordinated admission arrangements.
• All children applying to the academy, including children with statements of Special Educational Needs and looked after children, will be required to take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4 Level C) designed by GL Assessments. Children who do not sit the test will be considered after those who sit the test.
• Applicants will be placed in one of four bands, based on their performance in the test. An equal number of children will be assigned to each band (where possible) based on the range of ability of the applicants. Each band represents approximately 25% of the applicants. Children with EHCP identifying SEND and looked after children are included in the appropriate band. If they are unable to take the test, their band allocation will be based on their primary school teacher assessments. The academy will consider all applicants for places. Where fewer than 190 applications are received, the academy will offer places to all those who have applied.
• After the admission of pupils with EHCP identifying SEND where The City Academy, Hackney is named and the number of applications for admission is greater than the published capacity, applications will be considered within each band against the following criteria.

Tie break

Random allocation undertaken by an independent body will be used as a tiebreaker in categories 2 - 6 above to decide who has highest priority for a place if the distance between a child’s home and The City Academy, Hackney is equidistant in any two or more cases.

Send Asmissions

• No child will be refused admission to the Academy on the basis of his or her special educational need, ethnicity or language need. In line with the Equalities Act 2010, we will not discriminate against disabled children and we will take all reasonable steps to provide effective educational provision (see Admission policy for the school, as agreed with the Local Authority).
• Students with SEND are allocated places in two separate and distinct ways:
• Those pupils with statements or EHCPs have a separate admissions procedure overseen by Hackney’s SEN team. Applications for children with special needs or with a disability will be treated fairly.

In Year Applications