Over-subscription criteria for community secondary schools 2026

Places will be allocated in this order of priority:

1. Looked after children.
2. Children living in the defined priority area (catchment area) who have a brother or sister (including step/half brothers and sisters):
   • permanently resident in the same household;
   • and currently attending the school (excluding pupils in their final year).
3. Other children living in the defined priority area (catchment area).
4. Those children who do not qualify under categories 1-3 who have a brother or sister (including step/half brothers and sisters):
   • permanently resident in the same household;
   • and currently attending the school or its related junior school. (Excluding pupils in their final year.)
5. Other children.

Notes 

1. If over-subscribed in any category, children will be admitted in order of Proximity.