Admission process

Parents of children in Year 9 and Year 11 need to be aware there is an option for their child to transfer to a University Technical College (UTC) in either Year 10 or Year 12.

There are currently no UTC’s in Calderdale. The nearest (within an hour’s travel distance) are:

• UTC Leeds;
• UTC Sheffield City Centre;
• UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park;
• UTC Bolton;
• and UTC@MediaCityUK, Salford.

Impartial careers information, advice and guidance to young people in Years 7-11 is available at the Calderdale secondary schools. You can also check the UTC’s websites.

We must operate a coordinated admissions scheme for children that start primary school or transfer from primary to secondary school.

2026

• Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme Primary Schools 2026 (PDF 130KB)
• Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme Secondary Schools 2026 (PDF 130KB)

2025

• Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme Primary Schools 2025 (PDF 123KB)
• Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme Secondary Schools 2025 (PDF 109KB)

2024

• Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme Primary Schools 2024 (PDF 115KB)
• Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme Secondary Schools 2024 (PDF 177KB)

This table shows the published admission numbers for primary schools:

This table shows the published admission numbers for secondary schools:

2026

• Community and Voluntary Controlled Primary Schools
• Community Primary Schools.

2024 and 2025

• Community and voluntary controlled primary schools and academies.
• Admission criteria for secondary schools.

The School Admissions Code requires us to submit a report to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator. This is on aspects of the admission arrangements of the relevant schools in our area.

• Report to the schools' adjudicator - October 2024 (PDF 248KB)

A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order. This includes those who appear to the admission authority to have been:

• in state care outside of England;
• and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

A looked after child is a child who is:

• (a) in the care of a local authority;
• or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions. (See the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989).

Children attracting Pupil Premium are those who have been registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the 6 years prior to the closing date for registering for the test.

The school will require evidence of Pupil Premium registration and reserves the right to withdraw the offer of a place if the offer has been made on the basis of an incorrect, fraudulent or misleading application. Parents of children attracting Pupil Premium must have ticked the Pupil Premium box when registering their child for the test.

Parents will need to provide evidence of Pupil Premium registration to the schools no later than the end of the September in the year of application. Any evidence received after this date will be considered as late and will only be considered after the main round of allocations has been made.

Defined as:

• Full/half brother or sister.
• Step brother or sister.
• Adoptive brother or sister.
• Children of parents living together in the family household.

The sibling must still be on roll at the school when the applicant is due to start at the academy.

Please note: Cousins or other relatives living in the same household will not count as siblings.

In the case of twins or other children from multiple births (or two or more siblings in one year group) and where there is only one place available, the applications will be considered together as one application.

This will be determined by a measured straight line on a map from the designated school gate to your home.

• Distances will be calculated using the our GIS (Geographical Information System).
• No other method of measuring distance will be used.
• Each property has a coordinate taken from Ordnance Survey Address-Point data. This is the point from which distance measurements will be taken.

If two or more children live the same distance from the school, it will be decided by random allocation. This will be independently verified.