Lark Rise Academy

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (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 that appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be so as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Children of staff — Children of staff currently employed to work at the school
3. 3Residence in the school's catchment area — Children in the catchment area with siblings at the school who will still be attending the school at the proposed date of admission.
4. 4Residence in the school's catchment area — Children living in the catchment area of the school.
5. 5Sibling link — Children who live outside of the catchment area with siblings at the school who will still be attending the school at the proposed date of admission.
6. 6Distance from the school — Children living closest to the school measured on straight line distance. Please note: For applications to either Challney High School for Boys or Challney High School for Girls, the sibling criterion will apply to siblings of pupils attending either school. Places will be allocated using the criteria below for the following school: Chiltern Academy Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan naming the particular school will be admitted before the following oversubscription criteria applies:

Read 2026-09-12 from the Chiltern Learning Trust's determined admission arrangements for 2027/28. The trust's website disallows automated fetching of its /docs/ path, so this statutory document was retrieved through the operator browser. The trust sets different criteria for different groups of its schools; this is the group containing Lark Rise Academy. CORRECTION 2026-09-13: this row was written on 12 September with the right admission number, notes and source but an empty rule list — every rule came out blank. The rules below were re-read from the same published document. The rules were re-read from the same policy this row already cites, anchored on the document's own "Oversubscription criteria" heading.

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.