Entry guidelines

Admissions criteria
Parents applying for a place for their son/ daughter are asked to choose either a Christian or a World Faith place.

Admission for foundation (christian) places
The Governors have designated 150 places each year as foundation places for students who themselves AND their parent(s)/carer(s) are regular worshippers. Attendance should be at a public place of worship and be confirmed by a supportive reference from their parish priest or minister.

Admission for world faith places
The governors have designated 30 places as world faith places to be offered to students of world faiths who do not meet the criteria for a foundation place but whose parent(s)/carers(s) have chosen this church school for the type of education it provides.

Parent(s)/carer(s) applying for a world faith place should note that the school aims to provide an education based on Christian principles as outlined in the brochure and it is expected that parents would not wish to exercise the right of withdrawal from worship and Religious Education lessons.

Please note that for the purpose of the criteria below, ‘major non-Christian world faith’ is defined usually as Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist or Jewish. Attendance should be at a public place of worship (e.g. Temple, Mosque, Gurdwara, Synagogue) and be confirmed by a supportive reference from their religious leader. Governors reserve the right to also consider applications from faiths on the SHAP calendar.

In the event of over-subscription and when deciding between applicants who ostensibly have equal entitlement the governors will use the following criteria when deciding priority:

  1. Looked After Children (as defined by the LA as children in public care subject to Section 22 of the Children Act (1989) have priority over all other applications.
  2. The total points scored based on the answers given in sections 1 to 6 of the religious reference which relate to attendance and involvement of families.

Tie break
Where applicants have the same total number of points, the following criteria will be used as a tie break.

  1. Children with a sibling (sibling refer to all blood, half, step, adoptive and foster children who live at the same home address as the child already attending the school and will be attending the school at the time of the sibling ’s attendance) at the school, with distance criteria as set out below (2 – 5) being used as a tie break.
  2. Applicants living or worshipping in the Ealing Deanery area, with the distance criteria applied.
  3. Applicants living or worshipping in the Brent & Harrow Deanery areas, with the distance criteria applied.
  4. Applicants living or worshipping in the Willesden Episcopal area, with the distance criteria applied.
  5. Applicants living or worshipping outside the above three categories with the distance criteria applied.

Distance
In all cases, distance will be measured in a straight line from the child’s permanent home to the school.

Where applicants have the same priority on distance, random allocation will be the final deciding factor.