Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School

In-Year applications

• An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the admission round and the child will be admitted where there are available places. An application should be made to the school by completing the in-year admissions application form which is available on our website at https://www.ilsley.bham.sch.uk/admissions. A hard copy of the application form can be obtained by contacting the Miss M Salas, Admissions Office, on 0121 706 4200 or email enquiry@ilsley.bham.sch.uk.
• Completed application forms must be and returned to Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School, Victoria Rd, Acocks Green, Birmingham, B27 7XY.
• Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published oversubscription criteria, as set out in the admission arrangements will be applied. The full admission arrangements can be accessed from https://www.ilsley.bham.sch.uk/admissions or by contacting the school office to request a hard copy Parents are advised to read the admission arrangements carefully before making their application.
• If there are no places available, the child will be added to the waiting list and further information relating to this will be included in the letter sent from the school advising you of the outcome of your application. Please see the admission arrangements for more details.
• You will be advised of the outcome of your application in writing as soon as possible. Applicants must be informed of the outcome of their application within 15 school days of its receipt, but the aim is to notify applicants of the outcome of their application within 10 school days of its receipt.
• You have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel if your application is unsuccessful.
• If you have any questions in relation to in-year admissions please contact Miss M Salas. You may also wish to discuss in-year applications with the local authority on 0121 303 1888.

Appeals

Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place in the school should make that appeal request in writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at the school address. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel. Please note that parents do not have the right to appeal if their request for their children to be admitted to a class outside of their normal year group has been refused, but the Board of Directors have offered a place in the normal age group instead.

Late Applocations

Late applications will be dealt with in accordance with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions scheme. This states that in exceptional circumstances applications submitted to Birmingham local authority after the final closing date, but before the date that Birmingham local authority forwards the applications to the appropriate admission authority for consideration, may be considered at the same time as those which were received by the final closing date. Discretion will be used when considering the individual circumstances.

• There were exceptional reasons which prevented the parent from applying by the closing date.
• A child and the parent have moved home.
• Where the parent has been contacted regarding the information contained within their application, for example, an incomplete application or potentially misleading information requiring further investigation

Waiting List

• In addition to their right to appeal, children who have not been offered a place at Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School but were offered a school that was ranked as a lower preference on their application form will be added to a waiting list.
• The waiting list will be maintained until the last day of the summer term and will then be discarded.
• A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria order. This means that a child’s position on the waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria.
• Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. It may be that those already offered places may accept them, thereby filling all available places.
• Children on the waiting list who attend a named feeder school (see Note 5 above) who have not been offered a place in the school by the beginning of the Autumn term will be re-ranked to take into account that they will no longer be attending that feeder school from 1st September. This will affect the oversubscription criteria that your child is placed into on the waiting list from 1st September 2023. Children who are the subject of a direction by the Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol take precedence over those on a waiting list.

Admissions to the Sixth Form

• The school operates a sixth form for a total of 200 pupils. 100 places overall will be available in Year 12. Whilst the admission number is 20, if fewer than 80 of the school’s existing pupils transfer into Year 12, additional external pupils will be admitted until Year 12 meets its capacity of 100.
• Applications for the Sixth Form should be made directly to the school using the online application form available on the school’s website. Completed application forms must be returned to the school by February Half Term.
• Both internal and external pupils wishing to enter the sixth form will be expected to have met the same minimum academic entry requirements for the sixth form.
• A minimum of five level two qualification passes at grades 4-9 at GCSE or Merit Levels in BTEC subjects including GCSE English and GCSE Mathematics.
• In addition to the sixth form’s minimum academic entry requirements pupils will need to satisfy minimum entrance requirements to the courses for which they are applying. If either internal or external applicants fail to meet the minimum course requirements they will be given the opportunity of pursuing any alternative courses for which they do meet the minimum academic requirements. Course requirements are published annually in the school’s prospectus and on its website.
• When Year 12 is undersubscribed all applicants meeting the minimum academic entry requirements will be admitted or permitted to progress. When there are more external applicants that satisfy any academic entry requirements priority will be given in accordance with the oversubscription criteria set out below.
• Where there is space in Year 13, ie where there are few than 100 pupils in the year group, the school will admit additional pupils up to this number using the oversubscription criteria set out below.