Greenford High School
Admissions criteria
The below criteria has been summarised, for the full
admissions policy and arrangements please visit the school
website: www.greenford.ealing.sch.uk
Published admission number: 300 places
Where the number of applications is less than the published
admission number all applicants will be offered a place.
Where the number of applications is greater than the
published admission number; after the allocation of
children with an EHC plan, the admission criteria will be
applied in the following order of priority:
1. Looked After Children (LAC), including those that have
ceased to be so because they were adopted, became
subject to a residence order or special guardianship order.
2. Children who, at the time of their proposed admission
to the School, will have a sibling (that is a brother, sister,
half brother or sister, step or adopted brother or sister
or the child of the parent/carer’s partner) attending
Greenford High School. In every case, the child should be
living within the same family unit at the same address.
Independent verification may be required to prove that a
sibling relationship exists, for example birth certificates.
3. Children of Greenford High School staff who are working
at the school, at the time of application. Members of staff
who are eligible for this would have had to have been
employed by the school for a minimum of two years at
the time at which the application for admission is made.
How places were offered in 2020
Admissions
criteria
Criteria 1 to 3
Criteria 4
Offers made on national
offer day
All applicants offered
Distance of last child to be
offered: 0.621 of a mile
Waiting lists
The Admissions Committee will maintain a waiting list of
applicants seeking places at Greenford High School. Places
on this waiting list will be allocated in accordance with the
School’s Admissions Policy and oversubscription criteria.
No priority will be given in regard to the length of time that
an applicant has been on the waiting list.
Sixth form admissions
Applications for sixth form are made directly to the school.
Please visit the school website for the sixth form admissions
policy: www.greenford.ealing.sch.uk
For detailed information about the school and to
read their prospectus please visit the school website:
www.greenford.ealing.sch.uk
4. All other applications.
Tie breaks
In the event of there being insufficient vacancies to admit
all applicants in all of the categories detailed above, priority
will be given to children whose parents’/legal guardians’
residential address is the shortest distance from the centre
of the school site, as measured by a straight line. In those
instances, where applicants have the same priority on
distance, the tie-breaker shall be random allocation.
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