Admissions Policy
Admission Policy 2009
Cleeve School operates a fair banding system to allocate places. The places within each band are allocated according to catchment area and distance, as follows. The test that will be used is the NFER’s Cognitive
Abilities Test Level C. Children will be placed in one of 7 bands and each band will have an equal number of places allocated to it. Where a band is oversubscribed, places will be allocated in the following priority order:
- Children in public care.
- Children in the school’s catchment areas according to their geographical distance from the school, with priority to those living closest to the school.
- Up to 10% of places according to aptitude for languages, as demonstrated by the school’s language aptitude test, allocated in test score order.
- Other applicants according to their geographical distance from the school, with priority to those living closest to 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 still places available in a band they will be filled evenly by children falling into the next bands.
Applications from children who do not sit school’s chosen fair banding test will not be considered for places until after applications from children who have sat the banding test. It is therefore unlikely that applications in the initial admissions round from children who do not sit the banding test will be successful, although children being considered for vacancies that subsequently occur will not be required to sit the banding test. Children in public care will always have priority for admission, whether or not they have sat the banding test.
Criteria approved by the office of the schools adjudicator on 10th July 2008 and fixed up to and including entry for September 2011