Pelham Primary School

When there are more applications than places for 2022-23 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after / previously looked after children — Children in Public Care (Looked After Children) and children previously looked after immediately before being adopted or subject to a residence or special guardianship order.
2. 2Medical condition causing significant hardship — Children with a medical condition, which would cause significant hardship if they could not attend Pelham Primary School. Supporting evidence must be provided at the time of application and will be considered only where Pelham Primary School is the nearest school to home. The London Borough of Bexley’s own medical adviser may be asked for a professional opinion on the case presented. Late requests will be considered only if the medical condition occurs after the closing date for applications. Medical conditions consequential from a failure to obtain a place at Pelham Primary School, for example emotional distress (whether or not leading to a recognised medical condition), are not such as to fall within this priority. “Significant hardship” will be interpreted as being greater than inconvenience, financial disadvantage or emotional upset.
3. 3Siblings — Siblings of children who will be attending Pelham Primary School at the time the child is due for admission to the school. This priority does not include brothers or sisters due to transfer to secondary school in the next academic year. For this priority, brother or sister includes a full brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, or step/half brother or sister living at the same address.
4. 4Staff children — To ensure retention and recruitment of high quality staff within the academy, priority will be awarded to children with a parent employed at Pelham Academy Trust or a school within the Trust where; a) The member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5. 5Parent/sibling disability or medical condition causing significant hardship — Children whose parent or sibling has a disability or medical condition that it would result in significant hardship if the child did not attend Pelham Primary School. Medical evidence of the child/sibling/parent will be considered only where Pelham Primary School is the nearest school to home, nearest to the place of work of the parent suffering the condition, or nearest the home of the family’s registered child-minder.
6. 6Distance from school — Distance from school with priority given to pupils living nearest to the school, based on the distance measured as a straight line from the home address to the nearest pupil entrance. Measurements will be provided by the London Borough of Bexley in accordance with its home to school distance measuring policy. Home will be taken as the child’s home address at the time of allocation, that is the address at which the child lives with the parent or legal guardian who is also the main carer, defined as the parent eligible to receive child benefit and child tax credit.

If two applications tie: Random allocation will be used as a tie-break in situations where two applicants for the final place have an identical home to school distance.

The school will admit pupils with Educational Health Care Plans naming the school, where the school has agreed that it can meet that child's needs, prior to applying oversubscription criteria.

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.