Caister Junior School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 3), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Children in care and children who were previously in care — Children in care (looked after children) and children who were previously in care — those who were looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order immediately afterwards, including children who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside England and ceased to be so as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Catchment area, with a brother or sister at the school — Children due to transfer who live in the catchment area and have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.
3. 3Catchment area, with no sibling connection — Children due to transfer who live in the catchment area and have no brother or sister connection with the school.
4. 4Children eligible for the service premium — A pupil is eligible for the service premium if a parent is serving in the regular armed forces (including a parent on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service); or they have been registered as a service child on a school census in the past 6 years; or a parent died while serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme; or a parent is in the armed forces of another nation and is stationed in England.
5. 5Outside the catchment area, with a brother or sister at the school — Children due to transfer who live outside the catchment area and have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.
6. 6Outside the catchment area, attending a feeder school — Children due to transfer who live outside the catchment area and attend a feeder school at the opening date of the admission round.
7. 7Children of staff — Children of staff where a member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time the application is made, and/or the member of staff was recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
8. 8Outside the catchment area, with no sibling or feeder connection — Children due to transfer who live outside the catchment area served by the school and have no brother or sister or feeder school connection with it.
9. 9Children at primary schools with a brother or sister at the junior school — Children attending primary schools who have a brother or sister at the junior school.
10. 10Children at primary schools with no sibling at the junior school — Children attending primary schools with no brother or sister at the junior school.

If two applications tie: Where not everyone within a rule can be offered a place, priority goes to those living nearest the school within that rule, measured on a straight-line "crow fly" basis using Ordnance Survey data. If distance still cannot separate applicants for the final place, the authority uses random allocation, carried out by an officer of the council who is not involved in the admissions process.

These are Norfolk County Council’s rules — the council is the admission authority for community and voluntary controlled schools — and they are the Year 3 rules for transferring from an infant or first school, which differ from the county’s Reception rules. Catchment area matters more here than at many schools: living in the catchment with no sibling connection (rule 3) ranks above living outside it even with a brother or sister at the school (rule 5). A child with an Education, Health and Care Plan naming the school must by law be offered a place, and the number of other places is reduced accordingly. One caution: "school" means the main school, not an attached nursery class or learning support centre, so a sibling in the nursery gives a child from outside the catchment no priority.

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.