Year 7 Admissions

Secondary Transfers for September 2026

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 ask 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 via the online 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.

Allocation Statistics

Admission Documents 

Admissions Criteria 2026

Supplementary Information Form and Aptitude Test Application

Aptitude Test - Frequently Asked Questions

Key dates

SCHOOL ADMISSION APPEALS TIMETABLE

September 2026 entry

All parents will need to set up an appeals account in order to appeal.  The online appeals portal is the same for all parents and is found here: School Admission Appeal | Hertfordshire County Council

In order to set up an account, the following codes are needed:

• Application Reference Number
• Child ID

Hertfordshire parents can access the codes they need in order to set up an appeals account via their admissions account.  They can see them on the page where they are told their allocation. 

Parents who live out-of-county or who applied on paper will need to contact the Customer Service Centre on 0300 123 4043 in order to obtain their registration details to gain access. These then will be sent via automated email.  (Any in-county parents having difficulty finding their codes in their admissions account can also do this if they need to.)

Appeals resulting from secondary transfer for admission in September 2026 will be heard according to the following timetable:

• Appeals lodged after these dates will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline or 30 school days of being lodged, whichever 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

Any appellant wishing to submit supporting evidence after they have lodged their appeal will need to get that to the Appeals Team at least 7 working days before the hearing.

Please remember that any confidential medical/social evidence submitted to the Admission Authority (AA) in support of an application will not be provided to an appeal panel.  Any appellant who wishes to rely on this in support of an appeal will need to submit it separately to the Appeals Team.

A short document (like a doctor’s letter which was not previously available) will be accepted up to 4 working days before the hearing.  Any additional evidence received after this deadline will be accepted only at the panel’s discretion.

Admissions Criteria 2027