Admissions Criteria
Pupils are admitted using the Buckinghamshire County Council criteria for community schools.
If the school has more places available than applications received, all children will be offered a place.
However, if there are more applications than places available places will be allocated according to the published admission criteria of the school. Ickford is a community school. The Buckinghamshire admissions criteria for community schools are, in priority order:
- Children in public care for whom the Local Authority decides that the school is the most appropriate.
- Children living within the catchment area of the school.
- Siblings of children who are attending the school in Reception to Year 5 at the time the allocations are made or who have already been offered a place to start in the current academic year at the school
- Children who have exceptional medical, educational or social needs, which can only be met at that school, supported by written evidence from an appropriate professional person.
Once the above criteria have been applied, then any further places will be offered in distance order, using the distance between the family’s normal home address and the school’s nearest entrance gate: offering the closest first. We use the shortest appropriate route.
If a school can take some but not all of the children who qualify under one of these rules, we will give priority to children by using the next rule (or rules) in the list to decide who has the priority for places. For example, if all the children in the first rule can be offered places but there are too many children in the second rule then we will use subsequent rules to rank all the children in the second rule and decide who can be offered a place.
The primary school admission criteria are applied in the following order:
- To first preferences
- To second preferences
- To third preferences
To apply for a reception place parents must return the appropriate form to the County Council, from the Buckinghamshire County Council Admissions Booklet by the ‘cut-off date’, which is in November, for admission in the following academic year.
For further information please contact the school or Bucks County Council using the following link below :
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/content/index.jsp?contentid=657970117
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