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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 looked after and children who were previously looked after, 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, or became subject to a Child Arrangements Order or special guardianship order.
2. 2Siblings — Children with a sibling attending the School at the time of admission (see note b).
3. 3Children of staff — Children of staff at the school (including children of partners, and step children) where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. In addition, the child must live at the same permanent address as the member of staff.
4. 4Musical aptitude — Students with a proven aptitude in Music. The Musical Aptitude Tests, for those children who wish to be considered for a place based on musical ability, will take place in June of the preceding academic year.
5. 5Named feeder primary schools — Children attending named feeder primary schools with fixed percentage allocations: Brookmans Park 11%, Hatfield Free School 4%, Ponsbourne St. Mary's 4%, Countess Anne 2%, Ladbrooke 6%, Pope Paul 3%, Cuffley 14%, Little Heath 6%, St. Giles, S. Mymms 3%, Cranborne 14%, Northaw 3%, St. Mary's, N. Mymms 5%, De Havilland 5%, Oakmere 6%, St. Philip Howard 2%, Essendon 4%, Oak View 4%, Wroxham 4%. Within each listed school's application, priority is by proximity.
6. 6Proximity — Any remaining places will be allocated by proximity to the School using the home-school measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council, measured using a computerised mapping system to two decimal places from the AddressBase Premium address point of the child's house to the address point of the school.

If two applications tie: Random allocation will be used as a tie-break to decide who has the highest priority for admission if the distance between two children's homes and the school is the same. In the event where two different addresses are the same distance from a school, in the case of a block of flats for example, the lower door number will be deemed nearest. If there are two identical addresses of separate applicants, the tiebreak will be random allocation. Every child entered onto the HCC admissions database has an individual random number assigned between 1 and 1 million, against each preference school. When there is a need for a final tie break the random number is used to allocate the place, with the lowest number given priority.

Document also includes separate In Year admissions oversubscription criteria (Looked after children; Sibling; Children of Staff; Proximity) and separate Sixth Form external applicant oversubscription criteria, which are distinct from the main Year 7 entry criteria listed above.

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.