Haileybury Turnford

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. 1Children looked after and previously looked after — Children looked after and children who were previously looked after including those children 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. Previously looked after children are those who were looked after but ceased to be so because of being adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or a special guardianship order.
2. 2Particular medical or social need — Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to Haileybury Turnford. A panel of Hertfordshire County Council officers will determine whether the evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the requirements for this rule. The evidence must relate specifically to the school applied for under Rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the only school that can meet the child's needs.
3. 3Sibling at the school — Children who have a sibling at the school at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age-range of the school. Note: the 'normal age range' is the designated range for which the school provides, which is Years 7 to 13 at Haileybury Turnford.
4. 4Children of staff — Children of staff directly employed by the school on a permanent contract (full-time or part-time) who have been either: i. employed by the school for a minimum of two years at the time of application ii. recruited to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. In either case, the member of staff must be the biological or adoptive parent of the child, or have legal parental responsibility for that child or (where the child is the child of the member of staff's partner) must have lived with the child at the same address for at least two years prior to the date of application.
5. 5Priority area - nearest school — Children who live in the priority area for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire maintained school or academy that is non-faith, co-educational and non-partially selective. Non-partially selective means that the school does not offer any places based on academic ability.
6. 6Priority area - distance — Children who live in the priority area who live nearest to the school. The school's priority area comprises Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Nazeing, Northaw & Cuffley, Stanstead Abbots, Waltham Cross.
7. 7Outside priority area - distance — Children living outside the priority area on the basis of distance, with those living nearest to the school given priority

If two applications tie: A tiebreak will be used if 2 applications have addresses that measure the same distance from a school. For example, if 2 applications had identical home to school distance measurements, a random tiebreak would be used to decide which applicant is offered a place. Every applicant is given a unique random number for each of their school preferences. When a random tiebreak is needed, this random number is used to allocate the place – the lowest number is given priority. If 2 applications were received from the same block of flats, the applicant with the lower door number would be classed as nearest and offered a place because they are likely to be closer to the ground floor and, therefore, the school.

Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires the governing bodies of all maintained schools to admit a child with an Education Health & Care Plan (EHCP) that names the school. Haileybury Turnford will admit all children with an EHCP who names the school. If more children qualify under a particular rule than there are places available, for rules 2-6, the next rule will be applied to further prioritise children. The school will admit over the school's published admission number when a single twin/multiple birth child is allocated a place at a 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.