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These are the criteria for Community and Controlled schools. Schools that are Selective (grammar), Aided or Foundation may use different criteria to decide their admission. Contact these schools direct for more information or consult the 'Primary and Secondary School' books Where a child's statement of special educational needs names a particular school there is a duty to admit the child to that school.

What are the over-subscription criteria for Community and Voluntary Aided Infant Schools? 1. Children in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, a local authority (under Section 22 of the Children Act 1989). 2. Children living in the priority area who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of admission. 3. Children living in the priority area who have a brother or sister at the partner junior school (or primary school) at the time of admission. 4. Other children living in the priority area. 5. Children from outside the priority area who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of admission. 6. Children from outside the priority area who have a brother or sister at the partner junior school at the time of admission. 7. Other children from outside the priority area.

What are the over-subscription criteria for Community & Controlled Primary and Junior Schools 1. Children in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, a local authority (under Section 22 of the Children Act 1989). 2. Children living in the priority area who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of admission. 3. Children living in the priority area who have a brother or sister at the partner infant school at the time of admission. 4. Other children living in the priority area. 5. Children from outside the priority area who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of admission. 6. Children from outside the priority area who attended the partner infant school immediately prior to transfer. 7. Other children from outside the priority area.

What are the over-subscription criteria for Community Secondary Schools

1. Children in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, a local authority (under Section 22 of the Children Act 1989). 2. Children living in the priority area given in the booklet who will have a brother or sister at the school at the time of admission. 3. Other pupils living in the priority area given in the booklet. 4. Children living outside the priority area who will have a brother or sister at the school at the time of admission. 5. Other children living outside the priority area .

How is each criteria split?

Within each criterion priority is given in order of distance between the child's home and school (priority being given to the shorter measurement).

Distance will be calculated by the straight line measurement from the applicant’s home address location to the centre point (‘centroid’) of the preferred school. (All measurements are subject to prepositional accuracy changes)”

On entering the address into the Admissions system the address is PAF (Postal Address File) matched against Address-Point® data held in the system. When an address is PAF matched the system looks up a 7 figure grid reference for that property known as an Address-Point® location coordinate (APLC) (e.g. 1234567,1234567).

“An APLC is allocated to a point that falls inside the permanent building structure of an address, as shown in Ordnance Survey Land-Line data; in most cases the point will be within 0.1 metre on the ground of the Land-Line building seed.”

The distance from this point to the centroid (another 7 figure grid reference) is then calculated to the nearest 0.001 miles.

The PAF file is updated every 3 months. PAF files are provided by the Post Office via a third party supplier. Address-Point data is provided by Ordnance Survey and updated annually.

Flats/Apartments Where applications are made from the same multiple dwelling sharing a single PAF or Postal Address File (the address point location coordinate of the applicant's home address as set by Ordnance Survey), such applications in a single criterion will be considered initially by distance between the PAF and the school in the normal way. Where there are insufficient places to admit all those applicants, the individual priority for each applicant will be set by random allocation (lottery). The draw will be carried out by two officers of the Admissions Service, Children, Young People and Families Directorate in the presence of the Senior Solicitor, Legal Services, Performance & Development Directorate. The order of draw will be recorded and countersigned at the time. NB Any further offers made at a later time from the waiting list will be freshly drawn in the same manner.

What is the definition of a sibling/brother or sister? The definition of a sibling/brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission to include the sixth form (Y12 and 13) is brother or sister (including half brother or half sister, adopted, step brother or step sister) living at the same home address as the child applying for the place. A sibling connection will not be accepted if the original place was obtained by using fraudulent or false information.