Stanley Grove Primary Academy is a larger than average primary school serving the inner city community of Longsight. It is a Rights Respecting, Communication Friendly and Nurture UK school, promoting children’s wellbeing alongside their academic development.
This policy sets out how admissions will be dealt within the Academy and our determined admissions arrangements (“Admission Arrangements”).
The admission authority for the Academy is Bright Futures Educational Trust (“Admission Authority”).
The Academy’s Admission Arrangements will be reviewed annually by the Admission Authority. The Admissions Authority has delegated the authority to review and determine the Admissions Arrangements, along with any other admissions matters to the Academy’s Local Governing Body.
Any proposed changes to the Academy’s Admission Arrangements will follow the statutory consultation procedure outlined within the School Admissions Code (as amended from time to time).
Admission Arrangements
The Admissions Authority, through the delegation to the LGB, will determine the Admissions Arrangements annually to include the PAN and oversubscription criteria. The year that the Admissions Authority makes its determination is known as the determination year (“Determination Year”).
The Admissions Arrangements must be determined by the Admissions Authority by 28 February in each Determination Year.
In the event that the Admissions Authority has determined a change is to be made, or it has been 7 years since it last consulted on unchanged arrangements, a statutory consultation will be carried out in line with the School Admissions Code.
The Admissions Authority will provide details of the Admissions Arrangements to the appropriate bodies (as specified within the School Admissions Code), along with the governing bodies of community and voluntary controlled schools in the local area. Reasonable endeavours will be made to ensure the consultation reaches relevant stakeholders so they can express their view.
The Academy will participate in Manchester LA’s co-ordinated admission arrangements.
Admissions Authority will publish the determined Admissions Arrangements by Manchester LA on its website and within its composite prospectus (which will be available online or in hard copy) by 15 March in each Determination Year.
If there are any objections to the Academy’s Admissions Arrangements, these must be made to the Schools Adjudicator. The objections must reach the School Adjudicator by 15 May of the Determination Year. If the objections do not reach the Schools Adjudicator by the specified date, there will be no obligation to consider them.
Late Applications
All applications received by the Admissions Authority after the deadline for submitting an application will be considered as a late application.
Late applications will be considered after those received on-time and in accordance with the Academy’s oversubscription criteria. If, following consideration of all on-time applications the Academy is oversubscribed, the child will be placed on the Academy’s waiting list.
Applications received after the start of the Autumn Term in any Academy year will be treated as an in-year application and not a late application. In these circumstances, parent(s) / carer(s) must complete the in-year application form which will be considered by the Admissions Authority.
An application will be considered late if it is submitted after 15th January.
Waiting List
The Academy will operate a mandatory waiting list in Reception until 31 December in the year of admission. This will be maintained by the Academy. You may request that your child is not placed on the waiting list. You may apply to the Academy to have your child retained on the waiting list until the end of the academic year. Please contact the Academy’s office no later than 31 December to reapply to remain on the waiting list.
A child’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the Academy’s oversubscription criteria. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, subject to looked after children, previously looked after children and those allocated a place at the Academy in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol who will take precedence over those children on the waiting list. The waiting list will be reordered in accordance with the oversubscription criteria whenever anyone is added to or leaves the waiting list.
For In Year applications, waiting lists will be held for the remainder of the academic year in which the application was made. At the end of the academic year 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 at any school. 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.
Appeals
Parents have the right to appeal the Admission Authority’s refusal to offer a place at the Academy.
The letter confirming refusal will include the reason why admission was refused, information about the right to appeal, the deadline for lodging an appeal and provide the contact details of where an appeal should be sent.
Parent(s) / carer(s) must make their appeals in writing and set out the grounds for making the appeal.
The Admission Authority will appoint an independent clerk to the appeal panel.
The Admission Authority (or the clerk acting on its behalf) must appoint an Independent Appeal Panel comprised of a chair and at least two other panel members. There must be one lay member and one member who has experience in education or is a parent of a registered pupil at the Academy.
The Independent Appeal Panel will conduct itself in compliance with School Admission Appeals Code (as amended from time to time), in particular:-
Section 2 – Appeal Hearings, and
Section 3 – Reaching Decisions on Appeals.
The determination of the Independent Appeal Panel is binding on all parties.
Parent(s) / carer(s) will not have the right to a further appeal in respect of a place at the Academy for the same academic year unless there are exceptional circumstances whereby the Admission Authority has accepted a second application because of a significant and material change in the circumstances of the parent(s) / carer(s), child or Academy but admission was still refused.
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