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Dormers Wells High School
Admissions criteria Children of newly appointed staff
The below criteria has been summarised, for the full
admissions policy and arrangements please visit the school
website: www.dwhs.co.uk After the published offer date, where there is a demonstrable
skills shortage for a vacant post, the Academy Trust will place
the children of a new appointee for the post in question at
the top of the waiting list for places at the school.
Published admission number: 240 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. Children who are looked after or were previously
looked after – A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was
previously looked after but immediately after being looked
after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements
order, or special guardianship order.
2. Siblings – Children with a brother or sister attending the
academy in years 7 to 11 at the time of admission. The
sibling link does not apply to students who are attending
the sixth form in September 2020.
3. Children of staff of the school – Children where their
parent(s) has been employed by the academy trust at the
school for at least two years at the date of application
for admission or where the member of staff has been
recruited to a vacant post where there is a demonstrable
skills shortage.
4. Distance from home to school – Places are allocated to
applicants who live closest to the school. This must be the
address where parent and child normally live and they must
be living there on the closing date for receipt of applications.
Tie breaks
If more applications are received in any one criterion than
there are places available the tiebreaker of distance by
straight line from the Ordnance Survey address point for
the home address to a point in the school determined
by the grid references for the centre of the school’s
postcode. In cases where applicants live equidistant from
the preferred school and places cannot be offered to all
of the applicants affected, the available place(s) will be
allocated using random allocation.
Children of multiple births
In cases where there is only one place available at the school
and the next child on the waiting list is one of a twin, triplet
or other multiple birth group, both twins (or all the siblings
in the case of other multiple births) would be admitted, even
if this meant that the school would admit in excess of the
admission number.
How places were offered in 2019
Admissions
criteria Offers made on national
offer day
Criteria 1 & 3 All applicants offered
Criteria 4 Distance of last child to be
offered: 1.058 miles
Waiting lists
Waiting list for the incoming Year 7
Parents / carers can ask for their child’s name to be put on a
waiting list for the school. The waiting list will be maintained
by Ealing Council Admissions Team on behalf of the academy
trust from the offer date (2 March). Pupils will be kept on
a waiting list for a minimum of a full term. For main round
applicants they would be removed at Christmas.
For in-year applicants:
• Applications received during the autumn term would be
removed during the Easter holiday.
• Applications received during the spring term would be
removed during the Summer holiday.
• Applications received during the summer term would roll
over to the next academic year and be removed during
the Christmas holiday.
The waiting list will give priority in accordance with the
admissions criteria. Any places that become available will be
filled in priority order from the waiting list or late applicants.
Whenever an applicant is removed from or added to the
waiting list, the list will be reordered in accordance with the
oversubscription criteria.
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.dwhs.co.uk
For detailed information about the school and to
read their prospectus please visit the school website:
www.dwhs.co.uk
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