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Ealing Fields High School
Admissions criteria
The below criteria has been summarised, for the full
admissions policy and arrangements please visit the school
website: www.ealingfields.org.uk
Published admission number: 150 places
How places were offered in 2019
Admissions
criteria Offers made on national
offer day
Criteria 1 & 2 All applicants offered
Criteria 4 Distance of last child to be
offered: 0.557 of a mile
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. Children who are Looked After or Previously Looked
After and those who immediately after being looked
after became subject to adoption, a child arrangement
order, or special guardianship order.
2. Children with a sibling already on-roll at Ealing Fields
High School when they apply. A sibling relation does
not apply when the child currently on roll will leave the
school before the sibling starts.
3. 12 places for children showing an aptitude for music.
Places will be allocated in order of ranked assessment score.
4. The remaining places will be allocated in accordance
with the Tie Breaker arrangements (see below).
Tie breaks
Distance will be used as the first ‘tie-breaker’ if two or
more applicants are equally qualified for a place within the
oversubscription criteria.
Distance is measured in a straight line from the unique address
point for the applicants’ home address to the permanent
site for Ealing Fields High School which is Place House, Little
Ealing Lane, W5 4EJ, using the Local Authority’s computerised
mapping system based on ordnance survey data.
In cases where applicants live equidistant from the school,
the available place will be allocated using a random
computer selection by Ealing Local Authority.
Multiple birth and same year siblings
Where applications are received from twins, triplets or
other multiple birth siblings and one child is selected for a
place, Ealing Fields will admit over the published admission
number (PAN) in order to support the family. This will only
apply where one sibling would be within the PAN and the
other sibling(s) would be above the PAN (i.e. where the
150th place is offered to a multiple-birth sibling).
Waiting lists
If the school is oversubscribed, names of all unsuccessful
applicants will be placed on a waiting list.
This waiting list will be maintained by the school strictly in
the order of the oversubscription criteria and not in the order
in which the applications are received. If a place becomes
available, the child who is first on the waiting list will be offered
a place. Whenever a child joins the waiting list the list will
be reordered in accordance with the oversubscription criteria
above. The waiting list will run until the end of the school year.
Specialist music places
12 places within Ealing Fields High School will be offered
to students applying for a place in Year 7 with an identified
natural aptitude for music.
How to apply:
• Complete the Specialist Music Admissions application
form electronically on the school website by 27 September.
Parents applying for a place under this criterion are
reminded that they must also submit the PAN London
Common Application Form to their Local Authority by the
closing date.
• All ‘Specialist Music Place’ applicants will be invited to
attend a music assessment on 3 or 4 October.
• Your child’s score will be issued together with news as to
whether they have been invited to attend round two of
the process on 10 or 11 October.
• Your child’s round two score will then be added to their
round one score and a list of final results, in descending
order, will be compiled. Those ranked in places 1-12 will
be notified on National Offer Day that they have been
offered a music place (provided they have not received a
higher preference offer).
• Other applicants will be placed on a waiting list, ranked
according to their score. If a place becomes available it will
be offered to the applicant who is highest on the waiting
list. In the case of a tie on score, those students living
nearer the school as the crow flies will be given priority.
For detailed information about the school and to
read their prospectus please visit the school website:
www.ealingfields.org.uk
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