Girton Glebe Primary School

When there are more applications than places for 2025-26 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked after children and previously looked after children including those who appear (to the Admissions Authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Sibling — where the child has a sibling in the school or a sibling has already been offered a place at the school, and where the sibling will still be attending the school at the time of admission but not in a specialist unit or a specialist resource base for Hearing Impaired provision or in a nursery/pre-school. Priority will be given, where necessary, to applications where there is the smallest age gap.
3. 3Children of staff — Children of staff recruited to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. LA is required to approve the Headteachers' designation of such posts and confirm the assessment that a member of staff appointed meets the requirements of the shortage. Priority will be limited to one place for each form of entry in any year.
4. 4All other applicants — In cases where there are more applicants within a criterion than there are places available, a straight line distance measurement between the child's home and the school will be used to rank applications. The measurement will be taken from the child's home address which has been notified to the school and other relevant agencies as being the child's normal place of residence. Priority will be given to those children who live closest to the school. LA will measure the distance by a straight line ('as the crow flies'). All straight-line distances are calculated electronically using data provided jointly by the Post Office and Ordnance Survey. The data plots the co-ordinates of each property and provides the address-point between which the straight-line distance is measured and reported to three decimal places. Where there is more than one home within a single building (for example apartments) we will measure to a single point within that building irrespective of where those homes are located.

If two applications tie: Straight line distance measurement between the child's home and the school ('as the crow flies'), with priority given to those children who live closest to the school.

Multiple birth siblings: if the final place available is offered to a twin, triplet or other multiple birth and the remaining sibling(s) would ordinarily be refused, places will be offered to the remaining sibling(s) at the same school, even if this exceeds the published admission number in infant classes with a single qualified teacher.

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.