Jordanhill School

Admission

Jordanhill is neither a local authority nor an independent school and has its own unique Admissions Regulations.

The main entry points are Primary 1 (66 places) and Secondary 1 (a further 33 places). The offer of these places and any occasional vacancies which may arise from P1 to S2 are governed strictly by the Admissions Regulations.

In general terms, priority for admission is given to children who reside ‘locally’. The school has 3 waiting lists. In order of priority these are:

• List 1 Applicants living in a designated ‘local’ address
• List 2 Applicants living in a supplementary ‘local’ address
• List 3 Applicants living in any other address

ithin each list priority is given to applicants with siblings in the school and pupils are ranked strictly by the official date of receipt of their application. For the purposes of determining the annual offer of places for entry to P1 and S1 in the subsequent August, the place on the waiting list of each child is determined by the application of the Regulations as of 30th September in the preceding year.

• Admissions Regulations
• Guide to Admissions and Frequently Asked Questions
• Application Form
• Prospectus
• School Aims and Values

Admission to S3/S4

Vacancies which arise in S3 and S4 are offered only to ‘local’ children resident in List 1 or List 2. The offer of places is otherwise governed by the Admissions Regulations.

Admission to S5/S6

Entry to S5 or S6 is governed by a separate admissions process. Further information is available here.

Admissions Map

The map below shows List 1 addresses (blue), List 2 (green) and public and commercial buildings (red). The status of buildings shown as white dots is unknown and will be recorded as List 3 if domestic dwellings. The official list of residences as published in the Admissions Regulations takes precedence at all times.

How do I make an application for admission?

You must make an application for admission on the official application form. You can get a form from the web site, the School office or by writing to the school.

You must submit the completed form to the Bursar. We will

• Tell you what to do if your application is incomplete or unclear
• Acknowledge in writing receipt of all applications
• Confirm the official date of receipt and tell you on which list we have placed your child once you have correctly submitted the application form.

What are the criteria for getting a place at the School?

We decide which children will be offered places at the School after considering:

• The official date of receipt of your application
• Your child’s permanent residence (whether he/she lives in a designated or supplementary address1
• From the official date of receipt until and including the date of the School’s offer of a place and
• At the date on which we expect your child to start at the School and
• For a period of at least six months after that date.

How do the waiting lists work?

The School has three lists of applicants for admission. In order of priority these are

• Children whose permanent residence is a designated address
• Children whose permanent residence is a supplementary address
• Children who live elsewhere

We give applicants on List 1 priority over applicants on List 2 who in turn are given priority over applicants on List 3. Within each list we give priority to children who have a qualifying sibling2 . We then determine priority according to the official date of receipt of the application.

Offers of and Accepting a Place

For all children admission to the school and continued enrolment are conditional on the School being able to meet the educational needs of the child from within our existing resources and without incurring unreasonable public expenditure.

In September/October of each year we check the details of all applicants for the subsequent school year, apply the criteria and finalises the waiting lists. We then proceed as follows

• If your child is already in Primary 7 at the School, we will normally give your child the opportunity to proceed to Secondary 1. In November, we will ask parents/carers to confirm acceptance of the place in Secondary 1 for the following August. If your child has significant additional support needs, we will review our capacity to meet those needs in consultation with you and any supporting agencies before deciding whether we can offer a place.
• If your child is not at Jordanhill School and he/she is sufficiently high on the priority lists, then normally in November we will make a provisional offer of a place for entry to the first year of Primary or Secondary in the following August. You then have two weeks from the date of offer to send your written acceptance to the Bursar. In most cases we will confirm your child’s place in January.
• We keep a small number of places vacant pending the outcome of appeals. We normally offer the remainder of the places before the end of February.

Early Entry To Primary 1

We will not admit your child to Primary One if your child’s fourth birthday is after the statutory date of 28th/29th February of the year in which you are applying for admission. If your child’s fourth birthday falls after the 28th /29th of February, we will not admit him/her to P1 in the August of that year.

If your child is at another school to which they gained early admission we will transfer or add your child to the School’s waiting list for their actual stage of schooling. When transferring your child from the list for the year in which he or she would normally have started school to the list for the year before that one, then we will give him/her the same place on that list as he/she occupied on the original one. (E.g. if he/she was in 72nd place in his/her original year, we would put him/her at 72nd place on the preceding year.)

Appeals An Appeals

• Committee of the Board of Managers will adjudicate any dispute, uncertainty or special circumstances arising in relation to the operation of these regulations.
• The Appeals Committee will consist of two parent members of the Board of Managers and a third member who shall be an individual external to the school, a co-opted member of the Board or adviser to the Board as available and appropriate to the circumstances of the case.
• If you wish to appeal against a decision of the School’s officers, then you must do so on the standard appeals form available from the School and submit this promptly to the Bursar.
• The Appeals Committee of the Board will normally hear appeals within one calendar month from the date of receipt of the appeal.

The Appeals Committee will be the sole arbiter in the interpretation of these Admissions Regulations and its decision is final.