Coquet Community School

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 (as defined by Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) including a child who was previously “looked after” but immediately after being “looked after” became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order. Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Residence in the school's catchment area — Children living within the catchment area of the school and those on whose behalf firm evidence is presented that they will be living in the catchment area by the appropriate admission date. The following link provides information re: catchments relevant to the 2027/28 academic year: School catchment and transport eligibility maps | Northumberland County Council
3. 3Exceptional medical or psychological grounds — Children with an exceptional social or medical reason that means that they can only attend that specific school (for example, where the child or one or both parents has a disability that means that the child can only go to one school). Strong supporting evidence must be provided from a professional body involved with the family or the child. The professional must be independent of both the family and the school. The evidence must relate specifically to the school for which the application is being made and must demonstrate clearly why it is the only school that can meet the child’s needs. No assumptions should be made that the submission of the relevant evidence will, in itself be sufficient to allocate a place. Note: You will not be allocated a place under this criterion if you omit to send to the School Admissions Team a written statement from a professional third party by 31 October 2026.
4. 4Sibling link — Children who have a sibling* who already attends the school, including sixth form, and who is expected to be on roll at the school at the time of admission. *For the purpose of admissions siblings, are deemed to be brothers and sisters, stepsiblings, foster siblings, adopted siblings and other children who reside permanently in the household and are treated as siblings.
5. 5Children attending a feeder school — Requests on behalf of children which are based on the need to maintain continuity of educational provision within the feeder pattern of Northumberland’s schools. NOTE: Please see feeder schools below. Feeder Schools Astley Community High School New Hartley, Seaton Sluice, Seghill, Holywell Village, Seaton Delaval First Schools Seaton Sluice and Whytrig Community Middle Schools Corbridge Middle School Broomhaugh CE, Corbridge CE, Slaley, Whittonstall First Schools James Calvert Spence College King Edwin, Amble Links, Broomhill, Red Row, Grange View CE, NCEA Warkworth CE Primary Schools Seaton Sluice Middle School New Hartley, Seaton Sluice, Seghill First Schools Whytrig Middle School Holywell Village, Seaton Delaval First Schools Important: This criterion does not apply to those children who have entered a school in the final year before transfer.
6. 6Any other children — Other children

Read 2026-09-12 from Northumberland County Council's agreed admission arrangements for 2027/28. Northumberland runs a three-tier system in much of the county, so the council publishes one policy for first and primary schools (Reception) and a second covering middle, high and secondary schools at years 5, 7 and 9; the entry point here is taken from the school's own age range. The council's website rejects automated clients at its firewall although its robots.txt permits crawling, so the documents were retrieved through the operator browser. CORRECTION 2026-09-12: this row was first written the same day with the right notes but an empty criteria list — every rule came out blank. The rules below were re-read from the same determined document and written back.

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.