The St Matthew Academy has an agreed admission number of 120 pupils in Year 7. Children on roll of St Matthew Academy in Year 6 will have the automatic right to transfer to Year 7. The Academy will then admit additional pupils up to a maximum of the 180 places available in Year 7 overall.
Procedures where the St Matthew Academy is oversubscribed
Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the published admissions number, applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. After the admission of pupils with statements of special educational needs where the St Matthew Academy is named on the statement, places will be allocated in this order:
- Catholic Children in public care and children looked after by Catholic families
- Baptised Catholic children
- Other children in public care
- Baptised Eastern Orthodox children
- Children of other Christian denominations whose applications are supported by a Minister of Religion
- Children of other faiths whose applications are supported by a Religious Leader of a designated place of worship
- Other applicants.
If it is necessary to distinguish between applicants within any of the above categories, places will be allocated first to those applicants who have a sibling who will be attending the Academy at the proposed date of admission of the applicant.
After siblings, the remaining places will be allocated to those whose home addresses are closest to the Academy, as measured by straight line distance from the main entrance of the Academy to the main entrance to the child’s normal place of residence.
If it is necessary to distinguish between two applicants with a sibling connection, this will be done on the basis of closeness to the Academy as determined by straight line distance as described above.
Waiting lists
Subject to any provisions regarding waiting lists in the local authority’s co-ordinated admission scheme, the Academy will operate a waiting list.
Where in any year the St Matthew Academy receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate until a month after the normal annual admission date.
This will be maintained by the St Matthew Academy and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application.
Children’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the over-subscription criteria set out above. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the over-subscription criteria.