Admissions Policy
COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED
SCHOOLS PROPOSED ADMISSION POLICY 2011 / 2012
The proposed admission number for Hodgson High School: Technology
College is 225.
Oversubscription Criteria
1. Children in public care at the time when preferences are
expressed and who are still in public care at the time of their
admission to school
2. Children for whom the Local Authority accepts that there are
exceptional medical social or welfare reasons which are directly
relevant to the school concerned
3. Children living within the school’s geographical priority area
with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the
younger child will start *
4. Children living within the school’s geographical priority area
5. Children living outside the school’s geographical priority area
with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the
younger child will start
6. Children living outside the school’s geographical priority area
* A phasing in arrangement linked to the introduction of
geographical priority areas does apply. This protects all those with
siblings on a school’s roll in Years 10 and 11 only at September
2011. These pupils will all be considered under criterion 3 (above).
All others will be considered under the split sibling arrangements
as stated. This protection does not apply to secondary schools in
Burnley and Pendle where the full split sibling arrangements are
already in place.
Notes
The medical, social and welfare criterion will consider issues
relevant to the child and / or the family. This category may include
children without a statement who have special needs. Children who
have a statement for special needs will have their applications
considered separately.
Brothers and sisters includes step children, half brothers and
sisters fostered and adopted children living with the same family at
the same address (consideration may be given to applying this
criterion to full brothers and sisters who reside at different
addresses).
The distance criterion which will be used as the tie breaker if
there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria is a
straight line (radial) measure. If the Local Authority is unable to
distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (eg
twins or same block of flats) places will be offered via a random
draw.
The distance measure is a straight line (radial) measure centre of
building to centre of building.
A child’s permanent address is the one where he / she normally lives
and sleeps and goes to school from. Proof of residence may be
requested at any time throughout the admissions process (including
after a child has accessed a school place).
The Local Authority will keep waiting lists for all Lancashire
primary schools until 31 August 2010. These are kept in priority
order using the school’s published admission criteria. From I
September 2010 for one school term only waiting lists will be
retained by individual admission authorities (the Local authority
for community and voluntary controlled schools and individual
voluntary aided and trust schools will each retain their own list).
Children will not normally be able to start school other than at the
beginning of the term unless they have moved into the area or there
are exceptional circumstances.
Applications for school places which are received late will not
necessarily be dealt with at the same time as those received by the
set deadline. The reasons for a late application may be requested
and where these are not exceptional the relevant admission criteria
will be initially applied to all others received on time. The late
application will be dealt with after this process.
Where a child lives with one parent for part of the week and another
for the rest of the week only one address will be accepted for a
school admission application. This will normally be the one where
the child wakes up for the majority of school days (Monday to
Friday).
Please send comments to the Central Pupil Access Team (Room B28),
County Hall, Preston. PR1 8RJ (fax 01772 531511or e-mail pat.collier@lancashire.gov.uk)
by Friday 5 March 2010.