Park Hill Junior School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 3), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked After Children — Looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order, including those who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Children attending Park Hill Infants' School — Year 2 children on roll at Park Hill Infants' School do not automatically transfer; parents must complete a Transfer to Junior School application form naming Park Hill Junior School by the Croydon deadline. If applications from Park Hill Infants' children exceed places, allocation is decided using Priorities 3-6.
3. 3Exceptional Medical/Social Need — Children with medical or social grounds for admission where evidence shows this is the only suitable school. Parents complete the Trust's Social and Medical Form in addition to the CAF, supported by written evidence from a registered professional, submitted to Greenshaw Learning Trust no later than 15 January.
4. 4Children of permanent members of staff — Where the member of staff has been employed at Park Hill Junior School for two or more consecutive years at the time of application, or has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5. 5Siblings — Children who will have a sibling attending Park Hill Junior School or the linked infant school, Park Hill Infants' School, at the time of admission. Sibling includes brother/sister, half, adopted, foster, step, or the child of the parent's partner, and children brought together as a family by a same-sex civil partnership; the child must live in the same family unit at the same address Monday to Friday at the time of application. Children of friends or cousins are excluded.
6. 6Distance — Remaining places offered on proximity of the child's home address to the school, measured in a straight line using the computerised system specified by Croydon Council. Applications are ranked by home-to-school distance within each priority.

If two applications tie: Where two or more applicants share priority for a place, the child offered a place is selected by the drawing of lots, drawn by a senior officer of the Greenshaw Learning Trust Shared Service independent of the school's admissions process.

Year 3 entry September 2027; Greenshaw Learning Trust is the admission authority; arrangements determined by the Trust Board of Trustees. Applications close 15 January in the year of admission.

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.