Rack House Primary School is a school that centres on children, families and their community. We provide a welcoming, friendly, bright and lively, happy place where children feel secure, enjoy growing up and where good behaviour is positively taught and expected.
We will offer every child – whatever their own individual characteristics – the chance to achieve their full potential, and we will achieve high standards for all children. All children will be given foundations for future learning, and for success in life.
Every child will be treated fairly, be listened to, and have opportunities to achieve success, take responsibility and make contributions to society, build their self-esteem, develop their self-confidence and lead healthy life styles.
Rack House Primary School will consider all applications. Where fewer applications are received in any one year group, the school will offer places to all those who have applied. Pupils are admitted to the school in September of the academic year in which they are five. The published admission number is 60.
Pupils with an Education Health and Care Plan, that names the school in the plan, will be given a special priority over other admissions. If your child has an Education Health and Care plan or Statement of Special Educational Needs and you require further advice on primary to secondary transfer, please contact the Special Educational Needs section of the local education authority in the area you live in.
Application for Reception places or for in year admission to Years 1 – 6 should be made directly through Manchester City Council School Admissions (Local Authority) at:
www.manchester.gov.uk/admissions Oversubscription
If the number of applications for admissions is greater than the published admissions number
after allocating places to those with an Education Health and Care Plan or Statement of Special Educational Needs, places will be allocated in accordance with the following criteria and in the order in which they are set out below.
Category 1
Category 2.
The significant specific need that parents may ask to be taken into account must:
Parent(s) wishing to make an application on the basis of this criterion must demonstrate that Rack House Primary School is uniquely suited to meet the need described in their application and that no other school can meet these needs.
Applications made on the basis of this criterion must be accompanied by a report or letter from a relevant and appropriately qualified professional person. Such a person may be a doctor, social worker or educational psychologist. Rack House Primary School reserves the right to seek and take into account a second opinion from a suitably qualified professional person, such opinion to be gained at the expense of the school. Parent(s) are advised that they should provide full information with their application to enable it to be properly considered. It may not be possible for the school to consider late information.
Category 3.
Category 4.
Pupils who live the nearest distance to the school. The Admissions Team use a computerised measuring system to measure distance in a straight line from the centre point of the child’s permanent home address to the centre point of the school. Those living closer to the school will receive higher priority. The home address will be the address where the child spends the majority of the week. Proof of residency can be requested at any time throughout the admissions process. Parent(s) may be asked to provide their original council tax and Child Benefit documents. If false or misleading information is used to gain entry to the school, the offer of a place will be withdrawn and the application must be considered afresh with the new information contained within it, i.e. new address.
For the Primary Admission Round (Reception) a waiting list will be held up to the end of the Autumn term. At this point applicants will be required to re-apply for the school should they wish to stay on the waiting list.
For In-Year applications, waiting lists will be held for the term in which the application was made. At the end of the term all applicants will be removed from all waiting lists. The only exception to this will be if the applicant has not been offered a place. In this circumstance the applicant will be kept on the waiting list for the next term. Details of the waiting list process will be on the application forms and on the offer letters sent to applicants.
In-Year Admissions are Reception to year 6 applications received during the academic year. If more applications are received than places available the oversubscription criteria will be applied.
Application forms and guidance notes are available to download from our website or to collect from the main reception and are available from the Local Authority.
In year admissions are requests for places in any one year group received by the LA after the beginning of the Autumn term.
Parents/Carers will contact the LA when enquiring about an in-year school place. The Local Authority, in liaison with the Governing Body, will notify parents of places at Rack House Primary School.
If the application is not successful parents/carers have the right to Appeal against the decision.
The closing dates for applicants residing in other authorities should be checked with the relevant authority.
Applications should be completed online (or posted or delivered to arrive at the address given on the Common Application Form) by the time and date stated. Parent(s) applying after this date should attach a covering letter to explain why their application is late.
Late applications may not be considered until after consideration has been given to those applications received by the deadline.
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