Morley Place Academy

When there are more applications than places for 2025-26 (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 all Previously Looked After Children
2. 2Link School Children — Children attending Rowena Academy and who have, on the closing date, attended that school continuously for more than one calendar year.
3. 3Catchment Area — Children who are ordinarily resident in the catchment area of the school. For applications for the year of entry received by the closing date, a catchment area school will be determined in relation to the address at which the pupil is ordinarily resident on that date. Once a waiting list is formed, a child's place on that list will be updated in light of any new address.
4. 4Siblings — Children who are living within the same family unit (e.g. stepchildren) who will be attending the requested school at the point of admission. Where the requested school is an infant or junior school, attendance at a linked infant or junior school will be included. Where there are insufficient places in the appropriate year group to enable all siblings from a family unit to be admitted, including twins, triplets, etc, priority for available places will be given in order of birth, eldest first.
5. 5Proximity — Children who live nearest to the requested school measured in a straight line from the centre point of the child's ordinary place of residence, to the entrance nearest to the reception point of the school. If two or more pupils live equidistant from the school, the distance each pupil lives by road from the preferred school will be measured and the place offered to the pupil who lives nearest by this means. In the event of this being equal (e.g. in the case of flats), places will then be decided by Random Allocation.

If two applications tie: Proximity is the final tie breaker; if equidistant, road distance is measured, and if still equal, Random Allocation is used.

Document is a reproduction of the academy's determined admission arrangements within a council-wide compilation of academy and church school policies for 2025/26.

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.