What is the coordinated admissions system?
Under the coordinated admissions system, all parents will list the schools they want to apply for on one form (the In-year application form ( PDF 186K)), ranking them in their order of preference. This is important as we will offer only one school place and this will be from the highest-ranked school which can offer your child a place. The admission authority decides whether they can offer a place at the schools you have listed on the application form. If a school is oversubscribed (receives more applications than available places), the published conditions (admissions criteria) are used to decide who we offer places to. Unless the published admission criteria of the voluntary-aided schools say so, we will not pass details of where you ranked a particular school or tell a school about other schools you may have also applied to. It is important that you rank the schools in your true order of preference. We will consider all the applications for each school and work out which pupils we c
