Admissions

Cambridgeshire County Council manages the school admissions process for children who live within, or are moving into Cambridgeshire for all maintained schools, including academies. Please see:

Cambridgeshire County Council's Primary School Admissions Page for details of how to apply for a school place.

First Steps Admission to Primary School

The document 'First Steps Admission to Primary School' will give you information about:

How to decide which school/s you would like to apply for
How to make your application for a primary school place
How places are offered if there are more applications than places available
What will happen if it is not possible to offer your child a place at school

The Local Authority (LA) is responsible for co-ordinating the annual statutory consultation on admissions and for determining admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools.

Oversubscription Criteria for Community and Voluntary Controlled schools

If the school is full, pupils will be allocated, in the following order order for every space:

Children who have a Statement of Special Educational Need (SEN) / Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names the school will be admitted. NB. Those children with a statement of SEN / EHCP that does not name the school will be referred to the Statutory Assessment Team (SAT) to determine an appropriate place.

Children in Care, also known as Looked After Children (LAC) and children who were previously looked after but ceased to be so by reason of adoption, a residence order (now known as a child arrangement order) or special guardianship order.
Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceases to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
Children living in the catchment area with a sibling at the school (or partner infant/junior school) at the time of admission.
Children living in the catchment area.
Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at the school (or partner infant/junior school) at the time of admission.
Children of members of staff, providing that they have been employed for a minimum of two years and/or are recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage.
Children who live outside the catchment area, but nearest the school as measured by a straight line. In cases of equal merit in each set of criteria, priority will go to children living nearest the school as measured by a straight line.

In cases of equal merit in each set of criteria, priority will go to children living nearest the school as measured by a straight line.

UK Service Personnel/Crown Agents

Admission authorities must treat a family being posted to their area, whose posting abroad comes to an end, as meeting the residency criteria for the catchment area even if no house is currently owned in that area, once proof of the posting has been provided.

A school place will be allocated in advance if accompanied by an official government letter declaring a relocation date and intended address. The Admissions Team will accept a unit postal address or a quartering area address for applications from service personnel in the absence of a new postal address.