Admissions

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously ‘looked after’ but immediately after being ‘looked after’, became the subject of an adoption, residence order or special guardianship order.
2. Exceptional and Compelling Medical, Psychological, Social or Special Access Reasons which can only be met at the academy. Please note that a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must be completed for an application under this criterion within the timescales for the point of entry required
3. Siblings of students currently on the roll at the academy at the time of application for the proposed admission of the applicant.
4. Children currently on roll at the time of application at a Designated Feeder School (in the case of the academy this is defined as Nechells Primary E-ACT Academy) on 31 October 2021.
5. Children who at the time of the application are eligible for the Pupil Premium or the Service Pupil Premium. Please note that a SIF form must be completed for an application under this criterion within the timescales for the point of entry required.
6. Children whose parent/carer is a member of staff who has either been continuously employed at the academy for two (2) or more years at the time of application for a place or has been recruited to fill a vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Please note that a SIF form must be completed for an application under this criterion within the timescales for the point of entry required.
7. Any other applications of which priority of placement will be given to children who live nearest to the Academy (including if this address is with a parent/carer with shared responsibility for the child or not). The child’s home address will be the child’s permanent place of residency and must not be a business address, or the address of a relative or carer unless they have legal custody of the child. Applications must only be made from a single address.

Tiebraker

Once the above rules have been applied, and if there were to be a tie within any of the above rules, then any further places will be offered in distance order – Home to school distances will be measured in a direct line from a point on the home address as held by Birmingham City Council, defined in the Local Land and Property Gazetteer, (or similar property database) to a central point within the main academy building using Birmingham City Council’s computerised mapping system.

Where two or more applicants have a home address at the same distance from Academy and it is necessary to decide which child will be admitted, random allocation will be used. The random allocation process will be independently supervised.