The Road to Learning 2008
Admission criteria for community schools in Barking and Dagenham
If there are more applications than there are places available at a school, we will use the following criteria, in priority order, for deciding which applications to accept.
Priority 1
Children who are in the care of a local authority.
Priority 2
Children who have a sibling (brother or sister) attending the school (or in the case of an infant school, the linked junior school on the same site) at the date that child is due to start school.
We treat Furze Infant School and Warren Junior School, Eastbury Primary and Ripple Junior School, Village Infants School and William Ford Church of England Junior School as linked schools for this purpose. (Please see note 2).
Priority 3
Children living in the school's neighbourhood area at the date they are due to start school. Please see note 3.
Priority 4
Children who live closest to the school, measured in kilometres by the nearest available walking route using recognised footpaths, by-ways and public highways which our Highways Department are responsible for numbering and maintaining.
Important notes
- The child's home must be the permanent address where they live with their legal guardian. This address should be named for the parent and carer's council tax and where child benefit is addressed
- Brother or sister (sibling) means a full, half, step or adopted or long-term fostered brother or sister living at the same address and attending the named school. Please make sure you name all siblings on your application form. If they are not listed on your form, we cannot consider them under priority 2 listed above
- The Admissions and Attendance Team or the school will be able to tell you the name of your neighbourhood school
- Measuring the walking distances from home to school can only take account of the routes available at the closing date. This is because, if roads or route alterations are under construction, we cannot guarantee that the route will be ready by the time the children start school. Once the route is ready, we will measure applications made after that date (including appeals and requests for transport) using the new route
- Within any 1 criterion, we will use distance from home to school as a tie-breaker for pupils who have equal claim for a place. We will measure distances using SIA's measuring system Smart
- It is important to remember that going to a particular nursery class does not guarantee a place at, or priority for, a particular infant or primary school. Also, going to a particular primary or junior school does not guarantee a place at, or priority for, your child at a particular secondary school
- We cannot consider other circumstances not listed in the criteria. We must be consistent in our judgement and use only those criteria that we have already agreed
- If we discover that we have given your child a place based on false, inaccurate or misleading information, we will withdraw the place and may take legal action
Contact
Admissions and Attendance Team
160 London Road
Barking
IG11 8BB
Supported by Barking and Dagenham Direct:
Tel: 020 8215 3004
Fax: 020 8227 5541
Textphone: 020 8227 3180
Email: 3000direct@lbbd.gov.uk|
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8am - 8pm.
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