Admission Criteria Year 7

Children with statements of special educational needs, where Audenshaw School is the named school, will be allocated places before the oversubscription criteria are applied.  The criteria for over-subscription for Audenshaw School are:

1. Children in public care (Looked After Children)

2. Children and families with exceptional medical or social needs. Written evidence must be provided from a doctor or other agency that he has exceptional needs which means that admission to a particular school is essential, reference will normally be made to the Community Health Physician, Social Services, or the Educational Psychologist, as appropriate.  Members of the school's Admission Committee will make a decision as to whether to admit a child under this criterion using the evidence provided. All information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence.

3. Sibling: this will apply where there are brothers or sisters attending the school at the time of admission i.e. in the September when a student is admitted into Year 7.  Preference will be given to pupils living nearest to the school.

The sibling criterion includes; natural brothers; half brothers; step brothers; adopted brothers; brothers of fostered children, and in each case living at the same address.  This allows for the admittance of children whose siblings will still be attending the preferred school.

In cases where twins, triplets or other multiple birth siblings are split when allocations take place, siblings will be offered a place at the same school which may not be a preference school named on the common application form.

 4.    Single sex education - The common Application Form allows an  expression of a general preference for single sex education.  If the school is oversubscribed on this criterion preference will be given to pupils living nearest to the school.

 5.    All other applications on distance.  Preference will be given to pupils living nearest to the school.