Edmonton County School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after / previously looked after children — Children in public care (looked after children) and children who were adopted (or subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after. (Children adopted without having been previously looked after are not included in this criterion.)
2. 2Own Year 6 primary phase pupils — Children who are in year 6 at Edmonton County Primary Phase.
3. 3Exceptional medical grounds — Children for whom a particular school is appropriate on exceptional medical grounds. Such applications will be considered under this criterion only if they are supported by an attached written statement from a doctor. This must demonstrate that there is a very specific connection between the child’s medical need and the school requested.
4. 4Siblings — Children with a brother or sister (sibling) who will be attending the school at the time of proposed admission. The children concerned must be living at the same address. Siblings are defined as brothers or sisters of children already on roll of the school who will still be in the school at the time the applicant is admitted, living at the same address. For primary to secondary transfer, sibling priority will only be given where the older sibling will still be attending the school in the September that the younger child joins. The term ‘sibling’ means a full, step, half, adopted or fostered brother or sister, but not cousins.
5. 5Staff children — Children whose parent is a member of staff who has been employed at the school concerned for two or more years at the time of application and/or children of a member of staff who has been recruited to fill a vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
6. 6Distance (as the crow flies) — Children living nearest to the school measured ‘as the crow flies’. As Edmonton County School is situated on two sites, the distance measured will be in a straight line from the child’s home to a point midway between both sites, that is the closed end of Lynton Gardens (travel by private car or public transport will not be taken into account).

If two applications tie: When it is not possible to admit all applicants to a particular school within any criterion, priority will be given to those living closest to the school measured as in criterion 5 above.

Text reproduced from a council-wide admissions guide; some passages appear interleaved/garbled due to page layout (e.g., the tie-break reference to 'criterion 5' may be a printing artefact referring to the distance criterion). Priority order applies after admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan naming the school.

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.