The Calder Learning Trust

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Children in Care or Previously in Care — This includes children currently "Looked After" by a local authority as well as those who have been in state care outside of England. It also includes those who have left care through adoption, a child arrangements order or a special guardianship order according to the definitions set out in the Children Act 1989 and the September 2021 Admissions Code.
2. 2Cragg Vale catchment area (primary phase note) — Specifically for admission to the primary phase, children living within the Cragg Vale defined priority (catchment) area.
3. 3On roll at Pennine Alliance Learning Trust Primary Schools — Children who are on roll at any of the Pennine Alliance Learning Trust Primary Schools.
4. 4Catchment area sibling — Children living within the defined priority (catchment) area who have a brother or sister attending The Calder Learning Trust (excluding pupils in their final year). This includes step/half brothers and sisters. The siblings must be permanently resident in the same household and currently attending the school.
5. 5Catchment area — Children living within the defined priority (catchment) area.
6. 6Sibling currently attending — Children who have a brother or sister (including step/half brothers and sisters) permanently resident in the same household and currently attending the school (excluding pupils in their final year).
7. 7Children of staff — Children of staff employed at The Calder Learning Trust. 'Staff' for this purpose are defined as anyone employed by the Pennine Alliance Learning Trust who has held a contract with the Trust for two or more years at the time of the application or where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
8. 8Other children — Other Children.

Document mentions children with an EHCP naming the school are admitted first (not included as a numbered criterion per instructions). One criterion is explicitly labelled as applying to the primary phase, though this document is stated to cover Year 7 entry for September 2027; reproduced verbatim as printed. No PAN figure is stated on this page (it links to a separate PAN page).

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.