Admissions and school planning

We can provide services on admissions and the planning of school places:

1. Admissions
2. Planning of school places

Admissions (pupils 5-16)

Our service

We can provide a comprehensive, bespoke service to your school to meet your admission needs, which includes:

• Propose, consult and determine the admission number and oversubscription criteria for all community and voluntary controlled schools.
• Annually prepare, publish and distribute a composite prospectus for primary and secondary schools. This details the coordinated admissions process and oversubscription criteria for all mainstream Calderdale schools.
• Validate information contained in parental preference forms (address, sibling checks and more).
• Apply oversubscription criteria for all applications into community and voluntary controlled schools to determine eligibility for available places.
• By agreement, apply oversubscription criteria for applications into voluntary aided, foundation and academy schools. (To determine the eligibility for available places).
• Administer in-year transfers between schools.
• Prepare the case for the defence and represent mainstream schools at independent appeal hearings. For details regarding admission appeals and pricing, see: Legal Services.

Key benefit

A dedicated service with experienced staff who have detailed knowledge of current school admissions statute and regulations.

Pricing

No charge: This service is funded from the Dedicated Schools Grant.

Contact

• Joanne Atkins, Senior School Organisation and Access Officer:
• Phone: (01422) 392536.
• Email: Joanne.atkins@calderdale.gov.uk.

Planning of school places

Our service

We have a dedicated School Planning team who can work with you to help you plan your school places. We can provide:

• Details of past, present and projected trends in pupil place demand across Calderdale. This includes comments on any school organisation issues arising.
• The annual supply of school places return to the Department for Education. This details the levels of surplus or sufficiency of places across Calderdale.
• Planning of School Places 2025 (PDF 7.3MB)

Key benefits

We can:

• Offer you a dedicated service with experienced staff, who have detailed knowledge of current school admissions statute and regulations.
• Provide an in-depth knowledge of demographic trends to help plan the future need of school places.
• Review and inform you of changes to statutory school provision, including:
  • Create new schools;
  • enlarge or reduce schools;
  • transfer to another site; and
  • looking at other risks.
• Work with schools on issues around pupil growth or surplus places. This maximises school usage and complies with or works towards Best value indicators.

Pricing

No charge: This service is funded from the Dedicated Schools Grant.

Contact

Richard Morse, School Organisation and Access Manager:

• Phone: (01422) 392501.
• Email: richard.morse@calderdale.gov.uk.

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