Parkfield Community School

Criteria

• Looked after or previously looked after children.
• Children attending Nursery at Parkfield Community School with a brother or a sister already at the academy who will still be in attendance in September.
• Children with a brother or a sister already at the academy who will still be in attendance in September.
• Children who live nearest the academy and are attending Nursery at Parkfield Community School.
• Children who live nearest the academy.

Within each of these categories, priority is given to those who live nearest the academy, calculated on the basis of a straight-line measurement between home and academy.

Children with a statement of special educational needs

Any child with a statement of special educational needs is required to be admitted to the academy that is named in the statement. This gives such children overall priority for admission to the named academy. This is not an oversubscription criterion.

Sibling

Siblings (brothers or sisters) are considered to be those children who live at the same address and either:

• have one or both natural parents in common; or ii. are related by a parent’s marriage;
• are adopted or fostered by a common parent.

Unrelated children living at the same address, whose parents are living as partners, are also considered to be siblings.
Children not adopted or fostered or related by a parent’s marriage or with one natural parent in common, who are brought together as a family by a same sex civil partnership and who are living at the same address, are also considered to be siblings.

Distance

Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight-line measurement between the applicant’s home address and a point decided by the academy (Main Entrance, Parkfield Road). The Local Authority uses a computerised 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.

Shared Responsibility

Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both parents for part of the week, then the main residence will be determined as the address where the child lives the majority of the week. Parents may be requested to supply documentary evidence to support the address used.

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 list position during the year could go up or down. Any applicants will be added to the academy’s 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

Applications made outside the normal admissions round (in-year admissions) should be made directly to the academy. Parents/carers can apply for a place for their child at any time and to any academy.

The school will notify parents of the outcome of their in-year application within 10 school days, and must notify them in writing within 15 school days, and notify the local authority of the application and its outcome as soon as reasonably practicable, but will aim to do so within two school days.