Admissions to Secondary School

Year 7 entry

There are 180 places (from September 2025) each year for entry into Year 7.  Please see our Secondary Admissions Policy below for full details.
Secondary-Admissions-Policy-2023-2024.pdfSecondary-Admissions-2024-2025.pdf

Secondary-School-Admission-Policy-for-September-2026-2027.pdf

In short, places are allocated to:

• Looked-after children
• Children of UK service personnel and crown servants: for families of service
  personnel with a confirmed posting, or crown servants returning from overseas
• Siblings of pupils currently in the secondary school
• Children of members of the teaching staff working at the Academy 
• Pupils who score most highly on our Aptitude test
• Distance places for those at Islington Church of England Primary Schools (Foundation places) The last 3 years' distance cutoffs were:

     2023= 0.92, 2024= 1.091, 2025= 0.98

• Distance places without any other criteria (Open places). The last 3 years' distance cutoffs were: 
  2023= 0.326, 2024= 0.38, 2025= 0.308

Applications for transfer into Year 7 during Year 6 should be made using the Pan London Application Form, available on the London Borough of Islington website.

In-year admissions

For in-year admissions, please follow this link for the application form

In-Year-Admission-Form.pdf
Appeals

If your child has not been offered a place, the law entitles you to appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel against that decision. For details on how to appeal please see the document below.

SEC-Appeals-timetable-2025.pdf