Admissions to Secondary School

Year 7 entry

There are 210 places each year for entry into Year 7.  Please see our Secondary Admissions Policy below for full details.
Secondary-Admissions-Policy-2022-23.pdfSecondary-Admissions-Policy-2023-2024.pdf

Secondary-Admissions-2024-2025.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 (effective from 2022 - 23)
• Pupils who score most highly on our Governors’ Places aptitude test.
• Distance places for those at Islington Church of England Primary Schools (Foundation places) The last 3 years' distance cutoffs were:

          2021= 0.845, 2022= 0.838, 2023= 0.92

• Distance places without any other criteria (Open places) The last 3 years' distance cutoffs were: 2021= 0.386, 2022= 0.312, 2023- 0.326

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-2021.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.

SM-Timetable-template.pdf