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Primary, Junior, Infant and Nursery School Admissions (Appendix 1)

Hertfordshire County Council

CHILDREN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES

PRIMARY, JUNIOR, INFANT AND NURSERY SCHOOL ADMISSIONS

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Admission rules for community and voluntary controlled primary, junior, infant and nursery schools for the school year 2004-2005

Text in italics clarifies how the rule is applied

January 2003

The rules proposed for community and voluntary controlled primary, junior, infant and nursery schools are as follows:

1. Children who have a Statement of Special Educational Needs which names the school.
2. Children who can prove that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school, and those who are in public care
   
A panel of officers will determine whether the evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the requirements for this rule.

3. In the case of junior schools, children who attend the linked infant school at the time of their application.
4. Children who have a brother or sister on the roll of the school or linked school in the nursery through to Year 5 at the time of application
   
A sibling means the sister, brother, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, or child of the parent or partner living in the same house.

5. Children for whom the school is their nearest Hertfordshire community or voluntary controlled school.
   
These will be measured using ‘the shortest designated route’ which is the shortest public route with a proper surface (for example, tarmac or concrete).

6. Children who live nearest to the school.
   

We apply these rules in the order that they are printed above. If more children qualify under a particular rule than there are places available, we use a tiebreak by applying the next rule to those children.