The admissions policy for Leeds community and voluntary-controlled schools for entry in September 2009
Our chief executive makes all offers of a school place on behalf of Leeds City Council, which is the admissions authority. Headteachers or school-based staff are not authorised to offer a child a place.
We will offer places to children in the following order of priority.
Priority 1
a Children with a statement of special educational needs (see note 1 on the next page).
b Children in public care or fostered under an arrangement made by the local authority.
Priority 2
Children with brothers or sisters who will be at school at the start of the academic year and are living at the
same address (see note 2). This priority will not apply where the older sibling joined the sixth form from a
different school.
Priority 3
Where children attend the following infant schools they will have priority for the linked junior school:
Farsley Westroyd Infant linked to Farsley Springbank Junior
Guiseley Infant linked to St Oswalds Junior
Horsforth Featherbank Infant linked to Horsforth Newlaithes Junior
Rothwell Haigh Road Infant linked to Rothwell Victoria Junior
Yeadon Westfield Infant linked to Yeadon Westfield Junior
Should there be more children than places available priority 4 will be used as a tie break.
Priority 4
We will consider applications as follows.
a If there are enough places for everyone who has applied, we will offer every child a place.
b If we have more applications than there are places, we will offer places first to children living nearest to the school (measured in a straight line) (see note 3). We will do this in line with parents' preferences, in the following order of priority.
1 We will give priority to parents who put the nearest school for which their child is eligible either by distance or catchment area, where one applies (see note 4). This does not include any voluntary-aided schools which act as their own admission authorities. Neither does it include single-sex schools because parents choose these schools deliberately because they want their child to go to an all-boys or all-girls school as appropriate.
2 Next in priority will be parents who choose a Leeds school, which is not the one nearest to their home address (see note 4).
If we cannot offer parents or carers a place for their child at any school they put on their preference form, we will offer their child a place at their nearest community or voluntary-controlled school that has places available when we make the offer.
Please remember that this policy does not cover voluntary-aided schools. You need to contact these schools direct as they apply their own admission policies.
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