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Secondary
School admissions
in Brighton & Hove
2020-21
Closing date for
applications
31 October 2019
A guide for parents and carers
• Transferring to secondary school
• Moving into the area
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2
Privacy Notice Who we will Share your Data with Contact information
• Your data may be shared with schools,
The Council is the data controller for purposes of other council departments and public health. If you want more information about the school
the Data Protection Act (2018) and The General admissions process, or if you want to comment about
Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 • Your data may be shared with CACI international
this booklet or the admission arrangements, please
(“GDPR”) and is registered as a data controller who are the software suppliers of the city
council’s admissions software. This will be purely write to:
with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
under registration number Z5840053. for the purposes of system development and it
School Admissions Team
will not be disclosed by them to any third party.
Brighton & Hove City Council is committed Brighton & Hove City Council,
to protecting your personal information. As a • The data that you provide will also be shared Hove Town Hall,
data controller we have a responsibility to make with the Department for Education. Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ
sure you know why and how your personal How Long we will Hold your Data (Retention)
information is being collected in accordance If you need a translated, large print, or audio copy
• We will hold your data on council systems
with relevant data protection law. of this booklet, or if you have difficulty reading and
until your child reaches the age of 26.
Purposes & Lawful basis of processing • If your child receives transport assistance, writing, please email
• We are collecting your data for the purpose of we will hold your data for 6 years after your schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk or
making arrangements for school admissions child has ceased to be transported. phone the school admissions team on 01273 293653.
and home to school transport, to establish • After this time your data will be securely destroyed.
pupil records to assist schools in administrative Telephone opening hours are:
matters, track pupil progress, assess pupil Your information rights
entitlement to various benefits and services, and 8.30am - 5pm Monday
• Under GDPR you have certain rights concerning
not least, plan future school places and services. your information. 8.30am - 5pm Tuesday
• The information you provide may be verified • For further information on your rights visit 1.00pm - 5pm Wednesday
against information held by other council www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/about-
departments and used in the prevention of fraud. website/privacy-and-cookies. 8.30am - 5pm Thursday
• We have a legal basis for processing your 8.30am - 5pm Friday
information because we are performing a Further information
task carried out in the public interest or • If you would like to discuss this further please
official authority. contact our Information Governance Team However, during the June-July
on 01273 295959 or period, and in September,
• We may also collect special category data,
such as physical, mental health needs and our data.protection@brighton-hove.gov.uk when we are exceptionally
lawful basis is substantial public interest. • Further information is also available on the busy we will operate reduced
council’s website.Protection Officer; telephone opening hours of
data.protection@brighton-hove.gov.uk 8.30am - 1pm Monday to Friday.
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Contents Where you see an asterisk (*) next to a word or term, a definition
can be found at the end of the booklet, in the section titled
‘Explanation of terms and definitions’ on page 38.
Privacy Notice: Data Protection Act 3 List of secondary schools in Brighton & Hove 24
Foreword: A school place for your child in September 2020 5 Section 5: Admission priorities for schools
which are their own admission authority 26
Section 1: Before you make your application 6
Key dates in the admissions process 7 Section 6: What to do when you receive the decision 31
Maximise your chances 8 How do I accept my child’s school place? 31
Applying for a school place 8 What happens if I am not happy with the school offered? 31
Apply online 9 Reallocation pools* 31
How to appeal for a place at your preferred school 32
Section 2: Making an application 10
Decide which schools you prefer 10 Section 7: Moving house 33
Types of secondary schools in Brighton & Hove 12
What happens if I change address during the admission process? 33
Co-ordinated admissions 12
What happens if I am temporarily absent from the city? 33
How do I apply for a school place in another local authority area? 13
What if I move to the area when my child would not normally change school? 33
What do I do with my completed application? 14
In-year fair access protocol 34
What happens if my application is late? 14
Moving school if you have not moved house 34
Special educational needs (SEN) 15
How will my application for a transfer be dealt with 35
Section 3: How your application is processed 16
Section 8: School transport 36
Section 4: Admission priorities & catchment areas 17
The council’s admission priorities 17 Explanation of terms and definitions 38
Catchment areas, map and postcodes 20 Useful telephone numbers and websites 39
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A school place for your child in September 2020
Transferring to secondary school is a momentous and exciting time in a At Brighton & Hove, we want what you as parents and carers want;
child’s life. It can be a time when both pupils and their parents or carers a school where every child has the opportunity, encouragement and
need support, advice and information about the admissions process. guidance to thrive and fulfil their true potential. Our schools offer a
This booklet contains a wealth of information to help you consider the broad range of activities in and out of school time including the chance
right schools, make an application and understand how the application to participate in a wide range of musical and sporting activities as well as
process works. It provides a profile of all of Brighton & Hove secondary opportunities to make new friends. We are pleased with the quality and
schools alongside information about admission arrangements. Please read diversity of schools across Brighton & Hove with results across most
it carefully, look at the school websites and take the opportunity to visit the areas above the national average.
schools in your area before applying. Whichever state-funded schools you decide to apply for, all Brighton &
The council’s website is the easiest way to make your application. Hove residents should apply through Brighton & Hove City Council. Visit
The advantages are immediate. You will get automatic acknowledgement www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/schooladmissions to make your online
of receipt of your application and you will also receive notification of the application. If you still have unanswered questions after reading this
decision on your application by email on National Offer Day – booklet, our school admissions team is ready to assist on 01273 293653
2 March 2020. or at schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
Please note: the closing date for applications is 31 October 2019.
Please note that parents / carers have the right to express a preference
rather than choose a school. Sometimes there are more applications for We look forward to welcoming your child to one of our schools in
a school than there are places available. When this happens we will use September 2020.
the admission priorities* described in sections 4 & 5 to decide which Yours faithfully,
children will be offered a place at that school and which will be offered an
alternative place.
The first, second and third preferences you give will all be considered
Pinaki Ghoshal Cllr Nick Childs
together and we will offer your child a place at the highest ranked
Executive Director, Chair, Children,
preference we can. If the council cannot meet any of your preferences, we
Families, Children Young People and
will offer your child a place at the nearest school with places available, but
and Learning Skills Committee
this may not be in your catchment area. We would therefore strongly advise
you to visit schools that may be outside of your catchment area – we cannot
guarantee that your child will secure a place at the school or schools within
your catchment area.
5
1 Before you make
your application
✔ DO Talk to your child about the decision.
✘ DON’T be influenced by others. The right school for other
children is not necessarily the right school for your child.
Visit schools. ✔
✔ Ensure that you are entirely happy ✔ Look at the school’s
prospectus
Look to see how many places
each school has available
with your expressed preferences
before submitting an application This is called the published admission
You can get this from the number or PAN. This number is set to
Open evening event details school. It will give you an idea take into account the number of pupils
for Brighton & Hove schools of the school’s ethos each school site can accommodate and
are given on pages 24-25 of and character, national how many places are needed in the
this booklet curriculum test results and local area
public examination results
The admission number for each
✔ school is listed under each school’s
✔ Read Ofsted
reports
Consider how likely it is that your child
entry on pages 24-25
will be offered a place at your preferred
schools ✔
You can view
reports at Read the admissions criteria for each school and
Consider how
your child will
✔ Use your three
preferences
www.ofsted.gov.uk look to see which criteria apply to your child.
The admissions criteria are listed in Section 4 for
travel to and Select three
community schools or Section 5 for other schools.
from school different schools.
Do not list the same
Look at allocation information from previous
school three times
years which is available on the
council’s website
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Key dates in the admissions process
For children born between 1 September 2008and 31 August 2009 School term dates
1 September 2019 Application process for transfer to Year 7 begins.
2020/21
Opportunity for parents and carers to visit individual schools.
Prospectuses are available from schools Autumn term 2020
Friday 4 September - Friday 18 December
31 October 2019
Closing date for submitting online applications and paper forms
to be received by the school admissions team or your child’s Autumn half-term
current school. We strongly recommend that you do not delay your Monday 26 October - Friday 30 October
application to the last minute in case of technical problems. If you
choose to apply on a paper form it is your responsibility to ensure Spring term 2021
that the form arrives at its destination on time Monday 4 January - Thursday 1 April
22 January 2020 Applications received late with good reason up to this date will be Spring half-term
considered as on time. You must provide independent supporting Monday 15 February - Friday 19 February
evidence of the good reason or your application will be treated
as late
Summer term 2021
January/February 2020 Applications analysed Monday 19 April - Friday 23 July
2 March 2020 National Offer Day. No decisions will be issued by telephone. Summer half-term
• Parents who applied online will be notified by email of the outcome Monday 31 May - Friday 4 June
of their application
• If you completed a paper application form, letters will be sent by 1st class
post to parents to notify them of the outcome of their application
16 March 2020 Closing date for parents to either accept or refuse the
Parents must confirm school place offered. If the parent does not reply, the offer may egardless of how you applied, you can also email
R
place offered be withdrawn. schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk
to accept a place, refuse a place or request to be in
April onwards Places offered from the reallocation pool as they become available. a reallocation pool and for any other queries
Independent appeals panels meet to consider appeals from parents/
carers who are unhappy with their school allocation
September 2020 Children start their new schools
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Maximise your chances Applying for a
All applications will be subject to the published admissions priorities school place
There are two ways to make your
application for a school place if you are
Apply on time Apply online a Brighton & Hove resident and your
child is due to start at secondary school
• The closing date is 31 October 2019 • You can only apply online at
in September 2020
• Any applications received after this will be www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/schooladmissions
processed after the majority of places have been from September 2019 It can be done either:
allocated unless considered late with good reason • You will be able to view your application and • online via our website
• A late application therefore means you change your preferences up until the closing date www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/
schooladmissions
are much less likely to get what you want • Communication with you will be quicker
• Notifications of the places offered will be made • You will receive email confirmation of receipt of or:
on 2 March 2020 (unless your application is late) your application. • on a paper application. Copies are
• The school allocation decision will arrive by email available from the school admissions
on 2 March 2020 (rather than having to wait for team on 01273 293653 or email
1 the post to arrive) schooladmissions@brighton-hove.
gov.uk
Use all three preferences 2 Choose wisely You can use the online preference
• You could disadvantage yourself if you
don’t use your opportunity to express
3 • Consider the school’s oversubscription criteria
form to apply for a church voluntary
aided (church) school, an academy, a
• Check carefully in which catchment area you live – free school or a school in another local
a preference for three schools
see map on centre pages. authority area. However, you must
• Each preference is considered in its own right, remember to provide any additional
so give yourself three separate chances • Don’t assume you will be allocated a place at your supporting documents
catchment school even if you state it as one of or information as required by
• We only look at your order of preference
your preferences that school’s admission priorities.
(1st, 2nd or 3rd) if we are able to offer you a
place at more than one of your preferences • Visit as many schools as possible including those The supporting information must be
outside your immediate area handed directly to the school, and
you must at that point tell the school
if you have applied online.
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Apply
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/schooladmissions
If you are applying online for a community school but
are providing supporting documents about exceptional
circumstances, those documents should be submitted with
your application, handed in at the reception at Hove Town Hall,
or sent to the school admissions team by 31 October 2019
(see Section 4).
In the September 2019 round of admissions 95.7% of parents applied online
If you decide to apply online we strongly recommend that
you do not leave it until the last minute. Whilst our technical The benefits of applying online include the following:
systems are robust, high demand could make it difficult for you
to access the system if many other parents are trying to log in • It’s quick, safe and secure • You will receive email confirmation
at the same time. that we have received your
• There is no risk of your application application. Paper applications
You can access the website: getting lost or delayed in the post are not acknowledged
• At home • If you want to change your • You will not have to wait for the
• At an internet café application, it’s easier and quicker post to find out the outcome of
•A t a library (if you are a library member you can get to do it online until midnight your application. Apply online and your
on the closing date of decision will be sent to you by email on
free internet access at any Brighton & Hove library).
31 October 2019 National Offer Day, 2 March 2020
•O n your phone or tablet
• The online facility is available • There are links to other websites that
If you have any problems accessing or using our online school 24 hours a day, seven days a week can provide you with useful information
admissions site, please phone us on 01273 293653 or email us from September 2019 about schools
at schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
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2 Making an application Example 1) Tariq lives in the catchment area for
Dorothy Stringer and Varndean. His parents want
him to go to Varndean but they know that last
year there were not enough places at Dorothy
Stringer and Varndean for all the pupils living in
the catchment area. So they also express a third
Always use the online facility or application form provided by Brighton & Hove City Council preference for Brighton Aldridge Community
if you are a resident of Brighton & Hove. If you live anywhere else, you must use the preference Academy (BACA):
form or the online admissions facility provided by your local council, even if you would like your child
to attend a school in Brighton & Hove. 1- Varndean
2- Dorothy Stringer
Decide which schools you prefer 3- BACA
Tariq is entered into the random allocation
You should decide which schools you would prefer fall into a lower priority or were unsuccessful in process for Dorothy Stringer and Varndean but is
your child to attend and then complete the online the random allocation tie-break. unsuccessful for both schools. BACA has enough
application or the paper form listing up to three spaces for all pupils wanting to go to this school
different preferences. Listing second and third preferences will not affect so Tariq is allocated a place there.
your chance of being offered your first preference.
You do not have to express three preferences. Your first preference will only be considered above Example 2) Geraint lives in the catchment area for
However, if you only give one preference, and your second or third preference if we can offer Longhill. His parents want him to attend Cardinal
are not offered a place at that school, you will you more than one school place. In that case we Newman Catholic School because he currently
be offered a place at the nearest school with will offer you the highest ranked school we can, attends a church school, but he is not a Catholic.
an available place after everyone else’s three so please make sure you like your first preference They list the following preferences:
preferences have been considered. more than your second preference and your
second preference more than your third. 1- Peacehaven Community School
This may mean that by the time we look at 2- Cardinal Newman Catholic School
allocating a place for your child, your local schools The following examples are provided to illustrate 3- Longhill High School
may be full and your child may have to travel some what may happen based on previous years’
Geraint’s application is shared with East Sussex
distance to get to school. Please remember that oversubscription levels. Please note: they are only
County Council who consider Geraint for a place
each of your preferences will be considered equally possible scenarios. They are in no way a guide to
at Peacehaven but they are not able to offer him
and separately. This means some places may be this year’s oversubscription* levels. Please do not
a place as he does not fit their admissions criteria.
allocated to 2nd and 3rd preference applicants, assume that if your situation is the same as one
The governors of Cardinal Newman Catholic School
while first preferences are refused because they of these examples, your application will inevitably
are notified that Geraint’s parents have listed their
have the same outcome.
school as a preference. They are able to offer
10Geraint a place even though he is not Catholic. He 1- Blatchington Mill area so he can be offered a place. The governors
is also entered into the random allocation process 2- Blatchington Mill of King’s School are able to offer Bradley a place
for Longhill as he lives within the catchment area 3- Blatchington Mill as he fulfils their religious criteria and so Bradley’s
and it would be possible to offer a place there. family receive a letter offering Bradley a place at
Jacqui is entered into the random allocation process
Geraint is allocated a place at Cardinal Newman King’s School, as they placed this school higher
for Blatchington Mill. She only has one entry even
Catholic School as this is the higher preference. on their list than Patcham High.
though her parents have listed the school three
times. The random process does not offer her a
Example 3) Samantha lives in the catchment area
place at Blatchington Mill. As her parents have
for Dorothy Stringer and Varndean. However her
not applied for a place at Hove Park, she cannot
parents would like her to attend Blatchington Mill.
be offered a place at this school as they all have
They list the following preferences:
to be offered to children whose parents did apply
1- Blatchington Mill for places there. This means that Jacqui has to be
2- Dorothy Stringer offered a place at Portslade Aldridge Community
3- Varndean Academy, which is the nearest school with
vacancies after everyone’s preferences have been
It is not possible to offer Samantha a place at
considered.
Blatchington Mill because it is filled up with children
who live within the catchment area. Samantha’s
Example 5) Bradley lives in the catchment area
name is entered in the random allocation process
for Patcham. However, his parents prefer Dorothy
for both Dorothy Stringer and Varndean because
Stringer as it is closer to the family home. Their
both of these schools are oversubscribed with
second preference is King’s School as the family
children within the catchment area. Samantha
are church attenders. They list the following
is successful in the random allocation for both
preferences:
Dorothy Stringer and Varndean.
1- Dorothy Stringer
The council offers her a place at Dorothy Stringer 2- King’s School
because it was higher on her list than Varndean. 3- Patcham High
Example 4) Jacqui lives in the catchment area for Bradley cannot be entered into the random
Hove Park and Blatchington Mill. Her parents would allocation process for Dorothy Stringer as it is
like her to go to Blatchington Mill and they feel that oversubscribed from within the catchment area
she is more likely to get in if they list this as their and he lives outside it. However, Patcham High has
only preference. They list the following preferences: enough places for all pupils in that catchment
11Types of secondary schools in Brighton & Hove Co-ordinated admissions
We co-ordinate applications for all schools. Brief definitions of the types of Own-admission-authority schools
schools in Brighton & Hove are given below along with information about The council co-ordinates admission arrangements
how the admission arrangements are set and applied for each school with BACA, PACA, Cardinal Newman and King’s
by using the same application process for all
secondary schools.
If you live in Brighton & Hove you should apply
Community school Academy for these schools using the Brighton & Hove
Brighton & Hove City Council sets and applies Academies are publicly funded independently online admissions facility or the Brighton & Hove
the admission arrangements for the following run schools. The governors of the school set preference form. Cardinal Newman and King’s also
community schools. The admission arrangements and apply the admission arrangements. have supplementary information forms, available
are in Section 4. The governors for the two academies below from the school, which you will need to complete
have said they wish to follow the arrangements in order to apply for a place. These forms should be
•B latchington Mill returned directly to the school by the closing date.
set for community schools in Section 4.
• Dorothy Stringer
• Brighton Aldridge
• Hove Park The governors of BACA, PACA, Cardinal Newman
Community Academy (BACA)
• Longhill High and King’s are still responsible for offering places
• Portslade Aldridge at their establishments. Please see Section 5 for
• Patcham High Community Academy (PACA) details of how Cardinal Newman and King’s will
• Varndean do this. BACA and PACA use the Brighton & Hove
admission priorities in Section 4. The council will let
Free school Voluntary aided school parents know the school’s decisions.
A free school is a state school that is funded Voluntary aided schools are schools with a
directly by the Department for Education (DfE). religious character. They are their own If your child is not offered a place at BACA, PACA,
Like academies, free schools are independent admission authority. Their admission Cardinal Newman or King’s, the council will offer an
from local authority control. The governors arrangements are likely to reflect the school’s alternative place, where possible using your other
of the free school set their own admission religous character. The admission arrangements listed preferences.
arrangements. These admission arrangements are in Section 5.
are set out in Section 5. This joint working means that all parents will receive
• Cardinal Newman Catholic School
one offer of a school place because information
• King’s School about applications is shared.
12How do I apply for a school place in another local authority area?
We also share admissions information with neighbouring local authorities (LA). If you live in the city, any
applications for schools in the area of another LA should be made using the Brighton & Hove online facility
or application form. We will then contact that LA on your behalf. You are entitled to apply to different
own-admission-authority and community schools and schools in other LAs, but you must do this through
Brighton & Hove City Council if you live in Brighton & Hove.
• If you apply for schools in other local authority • If you are resident in the city and do not
areas, you must do so on the form you return apply online to Brighton & Hove or return
to the school admissions team in Brighton a Brighton & Hove City Council preference
& Hove. We will then forward your application form you will not be allocated a place at a
to that admission authority for a decision, and city school. If you are not sure whether you
will let you know along with all the other parents live within the boundary of Brighton & Hove
who have applied for Brighton & Hove schools. City Council, please telephone the school
admissions team on 01273 293653 or email
• If you are applying online you should use the schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Brighton & Hove online facility if you live within for clarification.
Brighton & Hove, even if you are applying for
schools outside the city. We will ensure that The addresses of the local authorities
your application is forwarded to the relevant adjoining Brighton & Hove are:
admission authority.
West Sussex County Council
• If you apply to an ‘out-of-city’ school that has County Hall, West Street
been oversubscribed, the further away you live Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1RF
the less likely you are to obtain a place, even if it is Tel: 033 301 42903
your first preference. Check this with the relevant www.westsussex.gov.uk
admission authority before applying.
East Sussex County Council
Admissions and Transport team
County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent
Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1UE
Tel: 030 033 09472
www.eastsussex.gov.uk
13What do I do with my completed application (Year 7)? What happens if my
application is late?
Apply online or return the application form to your child’s current
If your online application or paper preference form is
school by midnight on 31 October 2019. returned after the closing date without good reason,
it will be considered after the on-time preferences
If your child is not currently attending a Brighton If you live within the area of another Local
have been dealt with, and places allocated to them.
& Hove school, but you live within the city, please Authority, but wish to apply for a Brighton
use the online facility which can be found on the & Hove school, please make sure that you This means there is a much greater chance that you
council’s website at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/ obtain a copy of their preference form, will not get a place at your preferred school. It will
schooladmissions. Alternatively please return your complete it and return it to them at the also mean our response to you is delayed.
form to the school admissions team by the same address they give you by the same deadlines.
deadline (see page 3 for the address). If you have a good reason for your form being
Alternatively you may apply online, but please late, e.g. you have just moved to Brighton & Hove,
make sure that you use the online facility your form will be considered if it is received by
provided by the local authority in whose area 22 January 2020. You must supply independent
you live. supporting evidence of the reason why your form
is late (e.g. solicitor’s letter confirming exchange of
It is your responsibility to ensure that contracts). This evidence must also be received by
your preference form arrives on time. 22 January 2020.
Please remember that proof of posting is
not proof of delivery. In all cases, when If we agree that your application is late with good
you return the form to the school, please reason, it will be treated as if it were submitted
hand it to a member of staff. If you need on time. If we do not agree, it will be treated as
a receipt, please ask for one at the time. a late application. If we receive no independent
supporting evidence with the form we will assume
We strongly recommend that forms are that you do not have a good reason and your
completed online, returned to schools application will be treated as a late application.
or delivered by hand to Hove Town Hall
wherever possible. If you are moving within Brighton & Hove you must
still make your application by the deadline and then
provide your revised application and proof of your
new address by 22 January 2020.
14Special educational
Not knowing about the closing date, forgetting to
hand the form in or leaving it in the wrong place
Please note: the school admissions team cannot
accept responsibility for delays resulting from late
needs or disability (SEND)
are not good reasons for an application being late. applications, or late receipt of related papers.
A child or young person has SEND if they
Even if your child has a sibling at the school you If forms are returned by post to schools or the have a learning difficulty or disability which
need to complete an application in the usual way. admissions team and received after the closing calls for special educational provision to be
date they will be regarded as late applications. We made for them.
Please note that other admission authorities
strongly recommend that if returning a preference
may not treat these forms as on time. Please
form you deliver it to a school as recommended In most cases support for special educational
check with the school or council in question.
above. Online applications will be treated as late if needs can be met in mainstream schools.
submitted after the closing date (31 October 2019). Brighton & Hove City Council are committed
Example to this approach wherever it is practical.
Applications submitted after the closing
Many children have difficulties at some stage
date listing revised preferences will only Andy lives on the Bristol Estate, which is in the in their school career, and often the problem is
be considered from July 2020 onwards catchment area for Dorothy Stringer and Varndean. temporary and can be dealt with by the school.
unless there has been a house move into His parents want him to attend Varndean, because
a different catchment area. This is to make his brother Frank already goes there. They fill in You can access information about support
sure that parents and carers who do this a preference form with Varndean as their sole for children with a special educational need
do not gain an unfair advantage over preference. They give the form to Andy and tell or disability on Brighton and Hove’s SEND
others by having the opportunity to list him to give it to his teacher. Andy forgets about Local Offer which you can access at
more than three preferences. the form and does not give it to his teacher until www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/
3 November, after the closing date of 31 October. children-and-education/local-offer
This means Andy’s form is late and cannot be
Late applications received for oversubscribed considered until after all of the children whose If you think your child may have special
schools* will be added to the reallocation pool* parents applied on time. By the time Andy’s form educational needs, please speak with your
for that school as soon as possible after the is considered, all the places at Varndean have been child’s current school and the schools you are
initial school allocations have been made. In the offered to other children and Andy is offered a considering. If you need to contact someone
meantime children will be allocated to schools place at Longhill, which is the nearest school to his in the Local Authority about special educational
where places are available. needs, please get in touch with the council’s
home which still has space. Andy’s parents do not
special educational needs team on
Late applications and reallocation pool places will receive their decision on 2 March, but have to wait
SEN.Team@brighton-hove.gov.uk
start to be processed from April onwards. some time to find out where Andy will be going,
or 01273 293552.
because they missed the closing date.
153 How your application
The aim of this booklet is to help parents obtain a place in school
is processed
for their child. It explains the procedure to follow, the timescales
and what to do if there are any problems or difficulties.
If a translation is needed, please fill in the form at the back
of the booklet and post it. School Admissions computer
allocation process:
If we receive more than one application for the People have rights about automated decision making
All preferences are treated equally same child before the closing date, we will use the under the new EU General Data Protection Regulation
regardless of whether you have one which was submitted most recently. If they (GDPR). The use of a random allocation tie break
listed them first, second or third. appear to have been submitted by different people and computer allocation could be considered to be
we will check which one is correct before deciding an example of automated decision making as school
Places are allocated according to the which one to use. allocation decisions are made using a computer algorithm.
admission criteria (either in section 4 or Priority for on time applications will cease after the Below is an explanation about how this process works:
5). On-time applications are processed initial allocation of school places has been made, Applications are submitted online or paper forms are
first. Late applications will be dealt and late applications for schools which are full will received and imported into the admissions computer
with after on-time preferences have be added to the reallocation pools. system. While being imported the computer
been processed.
If you are unhappy with your allocated school or identifies whether the pupil’s address falls within
with the preferences you listed on your original catchment area for any of the three preference
If we can offer you a place at more
application, you do have the option to submit a schools. Admission officers then manually assess the
than one of your preferred schools,
revised application listing different preferences. applications and set the correct admission priority
we will offer a place at the one
However, new applications will only be considered for each pupil based upon the council’s admission
which features highest in your list
from July 2020 onwards unless there has been a arrangements (section 4).
of preferences.
house move into a different catchment area. This is For schools that have their own admission
to ensure that parents who change their minds are arrangements (section 5), it is the school governors
not given an unfair advantage by being allowed to who list the pupils according to that schools
list more than three preferences. admission arrangements and this is replicated on the
Please note: where a church voluntary aided council’s admissions computer system.
school, free school or academy is listed as a Where the random allocation tie break is used, every
preference, it will be considered by the governors preference for a school is assigned a unique random
who will apply that school’s admission priorities. number by the computer between +/- 10 billion.
16The computer lists all of the pupils for each
school in admission priority order and within
Admission priorities and
Admission priorities
catchment areas
4
each priority it uses the random number
(smallest to largest) to order the list of pupils.
for community schools
1. The allocation algorithm works down every Please read the following information carefully.
school list simultaneously, offering places
It will help you to decide whether your child has a good chance of being offered
until the admission number for each school
is met or there are no more un-allocated a place at your preferred school.
preferences. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee your child a place at one of your preferred
2. The computer then finds every pupil with schools or at a catchment area school within the catchment area where you live.
more than one school offer and withdraws
the offer for the lower ranked preference. Where there are more applications received Children with education, health and care
for a community school, BACA or PACA than plans (EHCPs) will be entitled to a place at
3. Processes 1 and 2 are repeated until every the school named in the EHCP. If the child
there are places available we will use the
pupil who could be offered a school of for whom you are responsible has an EHCP,
following five admission priorities to decide
preference has only one school place allocated. please ensure that you indicate on your
who will be given a place.
The final part of the automated allocation application that this is the case.
process involves pupils who couldn’t be offered
Please note: we do not take into account your child’s current school place, your childminding
any of their school preferences. For these pupils,
arrangements or workplace address. All allocations are based on the following five priorities listed:
the computer calculates the distance from
each address to all of the schools that still have 1. Children in the care of a local You will need to supply proof of your child’s status.
available space. The computer then allocates the This could be a copy of the original adoption
nearest pupils to each of these schools until all
authority (looked after children) and
certificate or order. A letter from the local authority,
pupils have been given a school place. previously looked after children
agency or department that last looked after the
Following this automated process; admission This priority applies to Children in the care of a child confirming the he or she was looked after
officers perform a number of checks on a local authority (looked after children), and children immediately prior to that order being made. If
random sample of pupils to ensure that school who were looked after in England or elsewhere you are not sure what to provide, please contact
places have been allocated correctly. but ceased to be so because they were adopted the school admissions team at schooladmissions@
(or became subject to a child arrangement order or brighton-hove.gov.uk or on 01273 293653.
special guardianship order). 172. Compelling medical or other exceptional reasons to attend the school
The purpose of this priority is to give priority to The supporting evidence you send needs to set out If the evidence you supply is not considered
pupils with a specific need that can only be met the particular reasons why the school in question is compelling enough to be included in this priority,
by one school rather than any other. If there are the most suitable and the difficulties that would be your application will be considered under priority 3,
medical reasons that make it essential for your child caused if the child had to attend another school. It 4 or 5 as appropriate.
to attend a particular school, you must provide is not essential for the professional supporting your
supporting information from a doctor together with All correspondence will be treated as
family to have in depth knowledge of your preferred
any other relevant information when you make private and confidential.
school but the evidence should explain exactly what
your application. your child needs, and what specialist support and/or Please note: none of the maintained schools* in
This must make a compelling case as to why facilities your child requires. Brighton & Hove select children on ability. A child’s
your child’s needs can only be met at the aptitude or ability in a particular subject will not be
It is vital that you supply any supporting evidence
preferred school, as a medical condition in itself considered as an exceptional reason for admission.
for compelling medical or other exceptional reasons
will not automatically result in a place being offered. for admission by the closing date. It is up to you to
For this reason, allocations against this priority
provide this evidence.
are rare. It is not essential for the doctor to name
the school in question, but the evidence should The school admissions team will not seek
explain exactly what the child’s needs are and what information about your child or telephone
specialist support and/or facilities your child requires.
people on your behalf. The decision will be
We may seek advice from the consultant community based solely on the information you send in.
paediatrician, who in most cases will only agree Online applicants can upload supporting
medical need for a school place if a child has an documents through the online admissions system.
EHCP as a result of their medical situation. Alternatively send supporting documents by post
to the team or provide scanned copies to
If you want a place at a specific school for other schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk
exceptional reasons, you must provide independent with a covering email giving your child’s full name
evidence from a professional who is supporting and date of birth.
your family. This should demonstrate that it is
essential for your child to attend the preferred If we do not receive this information by the closing
school and no other. Advice will be sought from date, we will not be able to consider your child
relevant professionals where necessary to determine under this priority, unless it relates to a change of
whether or not the evidence you have provided is circumstances (such as a new diagnosis) which has
sufficiently compelling to qualify under this category. occurred since the closing date.
183. Sibling link* 4. Catchment area Remember…
This will apply where a sibling living in the same This will apply if your child’s home address is within These admission priorities do not apply to
household will be attending the school when your the catchment area for the school in question. Cardinal Newman Catholic School or King’s School,
child is due to start, providing your home is in Details of catchment areas can be found on the which have their own admission priorities. These
the catchment area for the school in question. centre page. You will only be regarded as living in a are listed in section 5. Neither do they apply to
catchment area if your main residence is in the area. schools in other local authority areas.
A sibling link* is only taken into account if children
Ownership of a property in the catchment area is
live at the same main address and the sibling has The national School Admissions Code requires the
not sufficient. In order to qualify under this priority,
already been allocated a place at the school. Twins council to use an ‘equal preference’ system which
the address at which your child is normally resident
or multiple births do not qualify for the sibling link means that all the preferences for each school
must be within the catchment area.
unless one child has already been offered a place. are considered at the same time. However, you
Details of catchment area postcodes can be do need to list your preferred schools in order of
Where a sibling attends a nursery class or a
found on the map on the centre pages. preference as we will only offer you a place at one
sixth form on the same school site, it will not be
If you are in any doubt as to the catchment school. If we are able to offer you a place at more
counted as a link for admissions purposes.
area in which you live or whether your child than one school, we will allocate the one that is
You may be asked to supply proof that your qualifies for the sibling link, please email highest on your list of preferences.
child has a sibling at the same address who schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk or
Checks are made on information provided
attends the school. telephone the school admissions team on
by parents / carers.* If a parent / carer is found
01273 293653.
Please note: The sibling link does not apply to have supplied false or misleading information
for children who do not live in the catchment to gain a place at a particular school, the council
area. If this applies to your child, they will be reserves the right to withdraw the place, even if
5. Other children the child has started at the school. An example of
placed in priority 5.
If none of the above priorities applies to your child, false information would be the use of an address
they will be placed in this category. that is not the child’s normal residence.
Please note it is an offence to give false
information to obtain a place at a school. The
Tie-break council will investigate allegations about false
If a school is oversubscribed with children in information, and will consider further action in
any of the above priorities, the council will any such case.
use an electronic random allocation system
to decide which of the children within that
priority should be offered the available places.
19Catchment area postcodes
Below is a list of the postcodes which fall within each catchment area
Catchment areas are listed from west to east across the city. If you are in any doubt
part of BN1 5
as to the catchment area in which you live, please contact the school admissions team
BN1 8
on 01273 293653
Key part of BN1 9
London
Catholic secondary
school to Brighton
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
railway line
BN41 2 BN41 1A Secondary school London
BN41 1DY Road
BN41 1D except Y Railway line Patcham High
BN41 1FX BN41 1E Catchment boundary
BN41 1GR, S, T & U BN41 1G except R, S, T & U Road
BN41 1LD, E, F, G & H BN41 1H
Peacock
BN41 1N BN41 1L except D, E,
Lane
BN41 1PS F, G, H
A27 King’s
BN41 1RX BN41 1OH School
ean
Varndean
BN41 1S BN41 1PB
Tongd
Lane
BN41 1T Part of BN41 1PH Portslade Dorothy
BN41 1UA, B, Q BN41 1UY Aldridge Blatchington Stringer
d
BN41 1WY Community
R
BN41 1WA, B, E & R Mill
Link
BN41 1X Academy (PACA) Hove Park
on
BN41 1Y Lower Cardinal
glet
Newman
Han
Hove Park BN1 1
Blatchington Mill School / Hove Park School Old Upper BN1 3 ( part
Rd
BN3 Shoreham BN1 4
*Except BN1 3TG (Westcombe) BN41 1 line
BN1 2 BN1 3TL (Prestonville Road Railway BN1 5 (most
Boundary R
d
BN1 3* north of the railway line - Nos BN41 2 BN1 6-7
1-28) most of BN1 3
BN2 0-3
BN1 3TS (York Villas) Tongdean Lane BN1 2 West BN2 5 ( part
BN1 3TT (York Grove) BN3 Street
Addresses in BN1 5JD and BN1 5JE (Tongdean Lane) BN2 9
BN1 3TU (New England Road) cross the boundary between the catchment area for
BN1 3TF/3TX (Belmont) Dorothy Stringer / Varndean and the area for Patcham High:
BN1 3TH (Russell Crescent) Seafront
Odd numbers are in the area for Dorothy Stringer / The part of Tongdean Lane which is east of the railway line
BN1 3UG (Prestonville Court) Varndean. (ie Windsor Court BN1 5JS and Manhattan Court BN1 6XZ)
These are in the Even numbers are in the area for Patcham High. is in the catchment area for Dorothy Stringer / Varndean.
DS/Varndean Catchment area
20Patcham High School Dorothy Stringer School / Varndean School Brighton Aldridge
BN1 5AZ BN1 5BQ BN1 1 BN2 3 Community Academy
BN1 5E,F,G,H BN1 3TG (Westcombe) BN2 5A (BACA)
BN1 5JD (even numbers only), BN1 3TL (Prestonville Road north of the BN2 5B BN2 4
railway line - Nos 1-28) BN2 5D except T & some of Z BN1 9HW
Stanmer Village & 5JE (even numbers only),
the University of JH, JJ, JP, JX BN1 3TS (York Villas) BN2 5E except T & some of F, BN1 9HX
Sussex are in the BN1 5L BN1 3TT (York Grove) H&L BN1 9HY
BACA Area except A, B, D, E, R, S, W BN1 3TU (New England Rd) BN2 5FA BN1 9J except S
Area BN1 8 BN1 9HT BN1 3TF / X (Belmont) BN2 5FB BN1 9P
includes BN1 9A BN1 9HU BN1 3TH (Russell Crescent) BN2 5FG BN1 9Q except B
Falmer BN1 9BA BN1 9JS BN1 3UG (Prestonville Court) BN2 5GG, H & J BN1 9R
Village BN1 9E BN1 9QB BN1 4 BN2 5J BN1 9S
Brighton BN1 9G BN1 9TN BN1 5JS BN2 5LJ BN1 9B except A
Lewes Aldridge BN1 5A except Z BN2 5NA, B & S
Road Community BN1 5B, D, N, P, R, S, T BN2 5RT, Y & Z
Academy BN2 5TA, B, D, E, F, G, H,
(BACA) BN1 5JB, JD (odd nos only),
JE (odd nos only), JF, JG, JL, JN J, W & X
BN2 4 BN1 5LA, B, D, E, R, S, W BN2 5UB
Brighton BN1 6 BN2 5YS, U & W
part of BN1 9
to Lewes BN2 6-8 BN1 7 BN2 5ZH, L
railway line d BN2 0 Some of BN2 5PA
nR part of BN2 5
arre includes East Saltdean part of BN2 1 BN2 9
W
Bear Rd East Sussex County Council
Hollingdean Rd Rd Addresses in BN2 5DZ, BN2 5EF, BN2 5EH, BN2 5EL and
n BN2 5PA cross the boundary between the catchment area
rre Longhill High School
Wa for Longhill and the area for Varndean/DS:
of ) Freshfield
Rd
BN2 6 BN2 5N except A, B & S BN2 5DZ/BN2 5EF (Manor Way)- even numbers 2-34 are
BN2 7 BN2 5P except some of A in the Longhill area. All odd numbers and evens from 36
of)
BN2 8 BN2 5Q onwards are in the Dorothy Stringer / Varndean area.
Manor Longhill High
Hill y BN2 5DT & some of Z BN2 5R except T, Y & Z
Manor Wa BN2 5EH/BN2 5EL (Manor Hill)- odd numbers are in the
d BN2 5ET & some of F, H & L BN2 5S
of ) Marlow R Dorothy Stringer / Varndean area. Even numbers are in the
k BN2 5F except A, B & G BN2 5TN, P, Q, R & S Longhill area.
Whitehaw d
R BN2 5G except G, H & J BN2 5U except B
e BN2 5H BN2 5W BN2 5PA (odd numbers in Wilson Avenue)- 1, 3, 5, 7 & 11
Wilson Av are in the Dorothy Stringer / Varndean area. 13 upwards are
BN2 5L except J BN2 5X
Marina BN2 5ZB, D, E, F, G, J in the Longhill area.
NB: addresses on the eastern side of Wilson Avenue
(BN2 5PB) are all in the Longhill area.
21Catchment areas Twins / multiple births (or siblings*
Details of catchment area postcodes can within the same year group applying
be found on the map on pages 20-21 for the same school)
The council cannot guarantee that you will No special priority is given for the admission of
these children.
be offered a place at your catchment area
Please indicate clearly on each child’s application
school, even if you express a preference
if they have a twin or other same year sibling also
for the school or schools applying if you would like them to be allocated places
at the same school. In order to ensure both (or all)
Living in a catchment area gives applicants a higher Catchment areas are also used to decide priority children are given the same school using random
priority for admission to a school over applicants in the reallocation pool (which is how we allocate allocation, each child is considered separately in
who live outside a catchment area. However, there places which become vacant later in the process). the random allocation tie break but with the same
is no guarantee of a place for applicants living Children are prioritised in the reallocation pool random number assigned to both (or all) children.
within a catchment area or for applicants who based on the council’s admission priorities.
subsequently move in at a later date. If it is possible to offer the last place at the preferred
school to one child, then both (or all) children will
If you live in a catchment area for two schools and be allocated a place.
Children who live on boats /
you only list one of your catchment area schools on
your application, you will only be entered into the traveller children
random allocation process for that school. If you and your child live on a boat or a traveller site Home addresses
However, if you cannot be offered a place there, or you will be treated as a resident of the catchment
at one of your other preferences, you will not be • The school admissions team will allocate school
area within which the marina or site is situated.
entered into the random allocation process for the places using the address at which a child lives on
Brighton Marina falls within the catchment
other school in your catchment area. This means the closing date for applications (31 October2019)
area for Longhill. If you are unsure which
that you may be offered a school you are less happy although late changes of address will be
catchment area applies to your site, please email
with, which is further from your home. considered if we receive proof of address by
schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk
22 January 2020.
or telephone the school admissions team on
Parents and carers can apply for any of the schools 01273 293653. • The admissions team can only use one address
in Brighton & Hove, regardless of whether they live for admission purposes, so if it is unclear which is
in the catchment area. However, please bear in mind the pupil’s main address, the admission team will
that children who live within the catchment area will make a decision about which address to use.
have priority over children who live outside it.
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