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Year 7 Admissions

Secondary Transfers for September 2024

ALLOCATION SUMMARY 

 

2024

SEN

6

Rule 1 (children in public care)

1

Rule 2 (social/medical)

0

Rule 3 (staff)

2

Rule 4 (sibling)

104

Rule 5 (Home to school distance)

103

Rule 6 (aptitude for languages)

24

Furthest distance allocated to

1482.13m

The school participates in the Hertfordshire County Council co-ordinated scheme for admissions. All deadlines within this scheme must be adhered to by applicants. Hertfordshire County Council will make offers of places on behalf of the school. 

Hertfordshire County Council Admissions0300 123 4043

In addition to completing the Hertfordshire Standard Transfer Form (The Common Application Form) either online or in paper form, we encourage parents to complete the school’s Supplementary Information Form and return it to the Clerk to the Admissions’ Committee, The Broxbourne School, Badgers Walk, Broxbourne, Herts EN10 7FU. This is so that the governors can collect information which they need to consider applications fully. If an applicant does not complete the Supplementary Information Form, the Governing Body will apply the school’s oversubscription criteria using the information submitted on the Common Application Form. This may result in the application being given a lower priority against those criteria due to lack of available information. 

When applications for admission exceed the number of places available the following criteria will be applied, in the order set out below, to decide which pupils to admit. These criteria will continue to be used to allocate places should any fall vacant after the initial allocation. 

90% of allocations (216) will be made using the following criteria (1 to 5) in the order set out below and the remaining 10% of allocations (24) will be made using criterion (6)

  1. Children who are or have been in public care
  2. Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical and/or social need which makes The Broxbourne School the most suitable school for that child
  3. Children of staff at the school where the member of staff has been employed under a contract of employment with the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made or the member of staff is recruited under a contract of employment to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage
  4. Children who have an older brother or sister (a sibling) at the school living at the same address at the time of application, unless it is anticipated that the sibling will have left the school before the date of proposed admission of the applicant
  5. Home to school distance. The ‘Tie-breaker’. After places have been allocated using criteria 1, 2 3, and 4, home to school distance is used as the ‘tie-breaker’ to allocate any remaining places within the 90% of places (216) allocated to criteria 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.  Home to school distance is used as the ‘tie-breaker’ because it is a clear, objective and fair criterion 
  6. The remaining 10% of places (24) will be allocated for children who show an aptitude for languages on the basis of an assessment of aptitude carried out by the school. Priority will be given to those with the highest score in this test.

Admissions Criteria 2024

Key Dates

1 March 2024

National allocation day

Hertfordshire County Council will email you the school you have been allocated, if you applied online and confirmed your email address.

The online allocation system will be updated with allocations and be made available only after allocation emails have been sent.

If you applied on paper, they will send you a notification letter and response form by first class post.

If you applied online, you can use online facilities including opting out, making a new application and submitting an appeal.

1 – 15 March 2024

Continuing interest lists are created.

Applicants that didn't get any higher preference schools will automatically go on the list for those schools.

1 – 8 March 2024

Continuing interest applications open.

You can add new preferences for some Hertfordshire schools for the first continuing interest run. Information will be available online from 1 March 2024.

15 March 2024

Last date to accept the place offered.

Online applicants should accept the place online.

Paper applicants should return their response form to the Admissions and Transport Team.

25 – 29 March 2024

First continuing interest run.

Hertfordshire County Council will contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful.

28 March 2024 (4pm)

Last date to register an appeal.

2 April – 12 April 2024

Continuing interest applications open again.

You can add new school preferences for all schools for the second run of continuing interest.

12 April 2024

Last date to register a change of preferences or for new applications to be added for the second continuing interest run.

29 April  – 3 May 2024

Second (and final) continuing interest run.

Hertfordshire County Council will contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the second continuing interest run.

2 May - 17 June 2024

School place appeals take place during this period (excluding 6 May, 27 May - 31 May 2024).

May – July 2024

If school vacancies occur, places will be filled from remaining continuing interest lists.

Allocation Statistics

 

2020

2021

2022

2023

SEN

5

0

5

3

Rule 1 (children in public care)

3

0

3

3

Rule 2 (social/medical)

0

0

0

0

Rule 3 (staff)

3

2

3

0

Rule 4 (sibling)

73

86

84 (+1)

79

Rule 5 (Home to school distance)

112

108

123

131

Rule 6 (aptitude for languages)

20

20

24

24

Furthest distance allocated to

1803.83m

1898.18m

1900.48m

1756.090m

 

SCHOOL ADMISSION APPEALS TIMETABLE

September 2024 entry

Appeals resulting from secondary transfer and under 11s applications for admission in September 2024 will be heard according to the following timetable:

 

Allocation day

Appeals lodged by

Appeals to be heard between

Secondary

Transfer

 

 

1 March 2024

 

4pm on 28 March 2024

 

2 May – 17 June 2024

(excluding 27 May – 31 May)

Under 11s

(Primary Reception, Junior / Middle)

 

16 April 2024

 

4pm on 22 May 2024

 

13 June – 19 July 2024

 

  • Appeals lodged after these dates will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline or 30 school days of being lodged, which ever is the later date.
  • Appellants will be sent notification of their appeal hearing at least 10 clear working days in advance of the hearing.
  • Appellants will be sent a copy of the school's case 7 working days in advance of the hearing.

Additional supporting information

If an appellant wishes to send any supporting evidence after lodging an appeal, they will need to get that to the Appeals Team at least 7 working days before your hearing, (not counting the day of postage or the hearing date).

Please remember that any confidential medical/social evidence submitted to the Admission Authority (AA) in support of your application will not be provided to an appeal panel.  If you wish to rely on this in support of your appeal you will need to submit this documentation to the Appeals Team.

If the appellant has a short document (like a doctor’s letter which was not previously available), this will be accepted up to 4 working days before the hearing.  Any additional evidence received after this deadline will not be circulated and the panel may not accept any additional information taken to the hearing.

Secondary Transfers for September 2025

Admissions Criteria 2025

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