The Right Secondary School 2009
Admission criteria for the voluntary aided school in Barking and Dagenham (All Saints Catholic School and Technology College)
Before you apply, please read the admission criteria as well as the procedures for filling in the priest reference form on and sending the form.
If you have any questions about the admission criteria or appeals, or if you need more information, please contact the school.
All Saints Catholic School and Technology College's main duty is to offer places to practising Catholics. The school will give preference to those who go to Mass most often.
In the criteria, every reference to 'Catholic' refers to someone who:
- Is baptised or officially received into the Catholic Church
- Has, normally by the time they apply, made their first communion; and
- Preferably goes to Mass every weekend and Holy Day
The governors will first consider those Catholics whose Priest Reference Form (supplementary form) (
PDF 221K) confirms they go to Mass most often, and apply criteria 1 to 7 in order. If there are then more places available, they will consider those Catholics who go to Mass less often and apply criteria 1 to 7 to them.
They will repeat this process until they have dealt with all Catholics who have applied. If there are still more places available, they will then apply criteria 8-10.
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Admission criteria in order of priority
- Children from Catholic families who are in care of a local authority
- Catholics living in the parishes of list A who will have a brother or sister in the school in any of Years 7-11 on the day of admission in September 2009
- Catholics living in the parishes of list B who will have a brother or sister in the school in any of the Years 7-11 on the day of admission in September 2009
- Catholics living in the parishes of list A who are currently on the roll of a Catholic primary school
- Catholics living in the parishes of list B who are currently on the roll of a Catholic primary school
- Catholics living in the parishes of list A
- Catholics living in the parishes of list B
- Other looked after children
- Non-baptised children of a Catholic parent whose application is approved by the parish priest of any Catholic parish
- Any other baptised children
Important notes
- If there are unusual circumstances which have affected your family from going to Mass or your child from having made their first communion, you should discuss these with your parish priest and ask him to write them on the priest's reference form. The governors may take account of those circumstances
- You must fully accept and support the aims of All Saints Catholic School. You must also want your child to receive a Roman Catholic education
- If there are 2 or more pupils in the same category with a claim for a school place, the governors will give priority to those who live closest to the school site at Becontree Heath as measured by the nearest available walking route. The Admissions and Attendance Team will measure distances
- We cannot consider other circumstances that are not listed in the criteria. It is essential that we are consistent in our judgement and use only those criteria that have already been agreed
List A
- English Martyrs, Alma Avenue, Hornchurch
- Holy Family, Oxlow Lane, Dagenham
- St Mary's, Hornchurch Road, Hornchurch
- St Mary and St Ethelburga, Linton Road, Barking
- St Peter's, Goresbrook Road, Dagenham
- St Thomas More, Longbridge Road, Barking
- St Vincent's, Waldegrave Road, Dagenham
List B in priority order
- 1.1 - La Salette - Rainham
- 1.2 - St Albans - Elm Park
- 1.3 - St Bedes - Chadwell Heath
- 1.4 - St Edwards - Romford
- 1.5 - Corpus Christi - Collier Row
- 1.6 - St Cedds - Goodmayes
- 1.7 - St Dominics - Harold Hill
- 1.8 - Holy Redeemer - Harold Hill
- 1.9 - St Peter and St Paul - Ilford
- 1.10 - St John the Baptist - Ilford
- 1.11 - St Mary and St Erkenwald - Ilford
- 1.12 - Other Parishes in the Deanery of Havering
- 1.13 - Other Parishes in the Deanery of Redbridge
- 1.14 - Parishes in the Deanery of Newham
- 1.15 - Other Catholic Parishes
