Entry guidelines

Where applications for admission exceed the number of places available, the following criteria will be applied, in the order set out below, to decide which children to admit:

  1. Children in public care (‘looked after children’).
  2. Where the child has a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.
  3. Where the child has a brother or sister attending Dormers Wells Infant school at the time of admission.
  4. Where there are medical grounds, supported by a medical certificate; or social grounds, supported by a letter from a social worker, which necessitates the child attending Dormers Wells Junior School.
  5. The proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those living closer, as the crow flies, being accorded the higher priority.

An appeal panel will be arranged for appeals against non-admission.

Details of admissions and appeals will be published each year.

Please contact the school for information on its admission criteria. Please also see information on primary admissions and applying for a primary school place.