Broadland High Ormiston Academy

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 and Previously Looked After Children — Looked after children and Previously Looked After Children, including those who appear to the academy to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be so as a result of being adopted. A Looked After Child is a child in the care of, or accommodated by, a local authority (Section 22(1) Children Act 1989); Previously Looked After Children ceased to be looked after because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order immediately following having been looked after.
2. 2Children named on an EHC plan — Children with the academy named on an education, health care plan (EHC) or equivalent will be automatically admitted to the academy.
3. 3Children in public care (LAC) due to transfer — Children in public care (Looked After Children - LAC) who are due to transfer.
4. 4Catchment area — Children who are due to transfer and live in the catchment area.
5. 5Specialist Resource Base place — Children who are due to transfer who have been allocated a permanent place at a Specialist Resource Base attached to the school (places allocated by Norfolk County Council's Placement Panel).
6. 6Outside catchment area, sibling — Children who are due to transfer and live outside the catchment area, who have an older sibling attending the school at the time of admission (but not the sixth form).
7. 7Outside catchment area, feeder school — Children who are due to transfer who live outside the catchment area and attend a feeder school at the opening date of the admission round.
8. 8Children of staff — Children of staff at the school, where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time of application, and/or was recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
9. 9Outside catchment area — Children who are due to transfer and live outside the catchment area.

If two applications tie: If all children within any rule cannot be offered a place, priority within that rule goes to children living nearest the school, measured on a straight-line 'crow fly' basis using Ordnance Survey data. Where two or more applicants are equally near and cannot be separated, priority is determined by random allocation, independently verified by someone independent of the academy and OAT.

The document's own list in section 5.5 (transcribed exactly as printed, in order) opens with a general 'Looked after children' definition and the EHC plan admission note before restarting with 'Children in public care (LAC) who are due to transfer' as its own item; these appear to duplicate/overlap rather than forming a cleanly single sequence, but are transcribed in the printed order without reordering or merging. The catchment area is defined by a list of named parishes/villages (Ashmanhaugh, Barton Common, Barton Turf, Beeston St. Lawrence, Belaugh, Coltishall, Fairstead, Great Hautbois, Horning, Horstead with Stanninghall, Hoveton, Irstead, Neatishead, Pennygate, Rackheath, Salhouse, Sco Ruston, Stanninghall, Tunstead, Upper Street, Woodbastwick Village and Wroxham). The academy admits ages 11-16 only (main intake Secondary); the document's table of contents lists Nursery, Primary and Sixth form admissions sections (OAT template headings) but no corresponding body content for those sections is present, so only the Year 7 (Secondary) entry point is produced.

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.