St Mary's CofE Primary School

When there are more applications than places for 2026-27 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked-after children (LAC, PLAC, IAPLAC) — Looked-after children (LAC), children who were previously looked after, but ceased to be so because, immediately after being looked after, they became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order (PLAC), and children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and cease to be in state care as a result of being adopted i.e. internationally adopted previously looked after children (IAPLAC). Written supporting evidence should be supplied, at the time of application, from the relevant Local Authority.
2. 2Special medical or social need — Children with known special medical or social need for a place at this school. Written supporting evidence should be supplied, at the time of application, from a relevant professional, such as a doctor, social worker or educational psychologist. The supporting evidence should state the reason why this particular school is the most suitable and the difficulties that would be caused if the child had to go to another school.
3. 3Foundation Places (50% of remaining places) - Sub-criterion 1: Committed members of named parish churches — Children whose parent(s) have been committed members of The Parish Church of St Mary with St George, Hornsey, including St Mary’s Tower or The Parish Church of Holy Innocents, Hornsey, for more than 18 months at the time of the closing date for applications, and who have attended a Sunday service at least twice a month during that period at any of the churches named.
4. 4Foundation Places - Sub-criterion 2: Other Christian church members (Churches Together in England / Evangelical Alliance) — Children whose parent(s) worship at a member church of the Churches Together in England or Evangelical Alliance for more than 18 months at the time of the closing date for applications, and who have attended a Sunday service at least twice a month during that period at their Church.
5. 5Foundation Places tie-break: nearness to Fire Station — If there are more qualified applicants than Foundation places, places will be allocated according to the nearness of the home to the Fire Station, Priory Road, N8... Where two or more applicants have the same distance a decision will be made using random allocation.
6. 6Open Places (50% of remaining places) - Sub-criterion 1: Sibling — Children who will have a brother or sister in the school at the time of admission (see Note 2 below).
7. 7Open Places - Sub-criterion 2: Nearness to Fire Station — The nearness of the home to the Fire Station, Priory Road, N8, which is the geographic and historic centre of the parishes of St Mary and of St George, united in 1982 into the present parish of St Mary with St George, Hornsey. A computer-aided system maintained by the Borough of Haringey will be used to ascertain the nearness of the home to the Fire Station.

If two applications tie: Random allocation used as a tie-break where distance between two children's homes and the school (Fire Station, Priory Road, N8) is the same, for both Foundation and Open places allocations.

After EHCP/Statement admissions, priority order is: (1) LAC/PLAC/IAPLAC, (2) medical/social need. Remaining places are then split 50% Foundation places (allocated by church membership criteria then distance) and 50% Open places (allocated by sibling then distance). Unfilled places in either category are reallocated to the other. Multiple births clause allows exceeding PAN in certain circumstances.

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.