The academy’s proposed admission number is 60. If the number of applications is lower than the school’s admission number, all applicants will be admitted. If there are more applications than places available then all applications will be given a priority from the oversubscription criteria and places will be offered in priority order.
Criteria
- Looked after (LAC), or previously looked after children (PLAC) and internationally adopted previously looked after children (IAPLAC).
- Children with a brother or sister already at the academy who will still be attendance in September.
- Children who live nearest to the academy. Within each of these categories, priority is given to those who live nearest to the academy, calculated on the basis of a straight line measurement between home and the academy.
Children with an Educational Healthcare Plan (EHP)
- Any child with an EHP is required to be admitted to the academy/school that is named in the plan. This gives such children overall priority for admission to the named academy/school. This is not an oversubscription criterion.
Looked After or Previously Looked After Children
- A Looked After Child (LAC) is a child who is in the care of a local authority or is being provided with accommodation by a local authority as set out in s22(1) of the Children Act 1989. A Previously Looked After Child (PLAC and IAPLAC) is a child who immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, special guardianship or child arrangements order.
- In the case of previously looked after children both PLAC and IAPLAC children, admission authorities may request a copy of evidence to support your application from the last official body that last looked after the child, confirming that he or she was looked after prior to that order being made.
Distance
- Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight-line measurement between the applicant’s home address and the staff car park school gate. The Local Authority uses a computerized system, which measures all distances in metres. Ordnance Survey supply the co-ordinates that are used to plot an applicant’s home address and the address of the academy.
Final Qualifier
- In a very small number of cases it may not be possible to decide between the applications of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a place, when applying the published admission criteria.
- For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, or if the distance between the home and academy is exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If there is no other way of separating the application according to the admission criteria and to admit both or all of the children would cause the Published Admission Number for child’s year group to be exceeded, the Local Authority will use a computerized system to randomly select the child to be offered the final place.
- In the event of this occurring with twins or other multiple birth applicants, academies/schools will be asked to admit over their Published Admission Number to accommodate the pupils.
Waiting
- Lists Waiting lists will not be fixed following the offer of places. They are subject to change. This means that a child’s waiting lists position during the year could go up or down. Any applicants will be added to the academy’s waiting list in accordance with the order of priority for offering places. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end of each academic year.
Appeals
- Appeals are administered by the Local Authority for this academy. Parents who wish to appeal against the decision to refuse their child admission should contact the School Admissions and Pupil Placements Service on 0121 303 1888 to request an appeal form. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel.
In Year Applications
- Application made outside the normal admissions round (in-year admissions) should be made directly to the academy. Parent/carers can apply for a place for their child at any time and to any academy/school. On receipt of a completed in-year application, the academy will notify the local authority of both the application and its outcome, to allow the local authority to keep up to date with figures on the availability of academy/school places in Birmingham.
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