Hartford 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 children (England) — A looked after child or a child who was previously looked after by an English Local Authority but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements or special guardianship, order. A looked after child is a child who is in the care of a local authority or being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions, as defined in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989.
2. 2Looked after children (outside England) — A looked after child or a child who was previously looked after outside England but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements or special guardianship order. A looked after child is a child who is in the care of a local authority or being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions, as defined in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989.
3. 3Siblings — Pupils with brothers or sisters, stepbrothers or stepsisters, half-brothers or half-sisters, adopted brothers or adopted sisters living together as part of one household, already attending the preferred school in years Reception through to Year 5 in the primary school and expected to continue at the school in the following school year, at the time of admission. Siblings in Year 6 six will not be considered under this criterion for the normal admission rounds.
4. 4Catchment area residents — Children resident within the designated catchment zone of the school. Children will be classed within this category if they and their parents or carers are resident within the area served by the school at the time of application. However, for the normal admission rounds, the authority may consider a change of address providing the child is resident in the new property and supporting documentation is received by 12 December 2024 for secondary transfer and 20 February 2025 for reception applications, when the authority will begin the allocation of places process.
5. 5Nearest school by distance — Pupils living nearest to the school measured in a straight line from the centrally plotted Basic Land and Property Unit point of the child's home address to the centrally plotted basic land and property unit point of the school as defined by local land and property gazetteer.

If two applications tie: Random allocation, undertaken by an independent body, will be used as a tie-break in categories 2-4 above to decide who has highest priority for admission if the distance between a child's home and the academy is equidistant in any two or more cases.

This policy covers four schools in the trust: Sandiway Primary School, Cuddington Primary School, Hartford Primary School (PAN 60), and Little Leigh Primary School (PAN 30 each for Sandiway, Cuddington and Little Leigh). Where a criterion is oversubscribed, siblings are further prioritised by: (1) siblings within catchment, then (2) siblings outside catchment, with distance as the sub-tiebreaker within each sub-group.

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.