Admissions Policy

As a Foundation School admissions are the responsibility of the school Governors. The Governors have arranged with the Gloucestershire County Council for admissions procedures to be administered by the County Council but the final responsibility for deciding admissions rests with the Governors. The admission number is 245.

Policy 2008

Where applications for admission into Year 7 exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated according to a Fair Banding system based on the results of a non verbal reasoning test. Children will be placed in one of 9 bands and each band will have an equal number of places allocated to it. Where a band is oversubscribed, places will be allocated as follows:

Children in public care
Children in the school’s catchment areas according to their
geographical distance from the school
Other applicants according to their geographical distance from the
school.

Geographical distance is defined as the distance from the main entrance gate of the school, in a straight line, to the child’s front door. Where there are spaces in a band they will be filled evenly by children falling into the next and nearest bands.