Every year, thousands of pupils living in London transfer to secondary school, crossing borough boundaries to do so. All 33 London boroughs, together with 6 councils bordering the capital, now coordinate admissions to their secondary schools. Under the coordinated system, you can only receive 1 offer from your borough or council.
Under the Pan-London coordinated admissions system, all parents will list the schools they want to apply for on 1 form (the common application form), ranking them in their order of preference. This is important as only 1 school place will be offered and this will be from the highest-ranked school able to offer your child a place.
Parents will then return the form to the council in the area where their child lives. All the councils in the Pan-London coordinated admissions system will then use a computerised process to:
The decision on whether a place can be offered will be made by the admissions authority for each school listed on the application form. If a school is oversubscribed (receives more applications than available places), the admissions authority will use its published conditions (admissions criteria) to decide the order in which to offer places.
Unless the published admissions criteria of the school say so, councils will not pass on details of where the school was ranked and will not tell a school about other schools a parent has also applied for.
It is important that you rank the schools in your true order of preference. The Councils will consider all the applications for each school and work out which pupils could be offered places. They then keep the highest preference offer on each parent's form and release all other lower preferences.
These places are then offered to other parents who do not have a school place for their child. Councils will write to parents (who applied by the closing date) on Monday 2 March 2009 and tell them the results of their application.
Admissions and Attendance Team
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Barking
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Tel: 020 8215 3004
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Textphone: 020 8227 3180
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